Snakes: And Wonders of Serpent Life (Classic Reprint)

What could induce you to take up such a Jwrrid subject as snakes? a few words of explanation must be offered. Some words of apology are also due that I, a learner myself, should aspire to instruct others, I cannot do better, therefore, than tell the history of this book from its birth, and in so doing cancel both obligations. The little history will be a sort of OPH tDIANA, or gossip about snakes; and in this I only follow the example of most herpetol ists, who, when writing exclusively on these reptiles, preface their work with some outline of the history of ophiolcy, and generally with an excuse for introducing the unwelcome subject at all. There is still reason to lament that traditional prejudice invests everything in the shape of a serpent with repulsive qualities, and that these prejudices are being only very slowly swept away by the besom of science.
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