RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Note on Andrew Smith and venomous snakes]. CUL-DAR74.45. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR 72-75 contain Darwin's abstracts of scientific books and journals.
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Jan 47. Andrew Smith says that the saliva of non venomous snakes seems in some degree injurious; & that a bite smart a degree more than accountable from prick – does not believe & showed Owen that there is in that cd division any difference in that part of the salivary gland which Dufresny considers [hardly] venomous – see Illustrations of Zoology
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