Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.20882

    Snake fangs, teeth and skeletons

    Date
    1872
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Creator - Organisation
    M & N Hanhart, Lithographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    38927
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 455mm
    width (page): 330mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Herpetology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > snake
    Description
    Anatomical study of the fangs, teeth and skeletons of various snake specimens, including Russell’s viper Daboia Russellii, Indian cobra, Naja naja, braided krait, Bungarus fasciatus, and Indian ratsnake, Ptyas mucosa.

    Inscribed: ‘Plate 31/ A. Maxillary bone & Fangs of Daboia russellii/ B. “ Naja tripudians/ C. “ Bugarus fasciatus./ D. “ Ptyras mucosus/ A. Fang of Daboia./ D. Transverse section./ B. Fang of Naja tripudians./ E. Transverse section./ C. Fang of Hydrophus./ F. Tranverse section./ 1. Daboia russelli/ 2. Naja tripidians./ 3. Bungarus fasciatus./ 4.Ptyas mucosus. […]’

    Plate 31 from Joseph Fayrer’s The Thanatophidia of India; being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life, and a series of experiments (London, 1872). A study of various Indian snake species and how to treat their bites. Complete with colour illustrations to aid classification and identification created by students of the Kolkata School of Art. Published by the colonial government.

    Sir Joseph Fayrer, first baronet, (1824-1907), surgeon and author, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877. Fayrer worked in India between 1850 and 1872 and is best known for The Thanatophidia of India.
    Object history
    This volume was presented to the Royal Society on 27 July 1872 with an accompanying letter from the author [‘May I beg the Royal Society’s acceptance of a copy of my work on the Poisonous Snakes of India’].
    Related fellows
    Joseph Fayrer (1824 - 1907, British) , Surgeon
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Asia
          > India
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