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and the current authorities being on one side, and “H. M.” on the other, anthropologists may be able to draw their own conclusions as to the accuracy of statements which appear to be corroborated by those persons who are qualified to give evidence to scientific men as to points of Indian anthropology.
On a more particularly zoological subject I may note that Dr. Joseph Fayrer’s work, The Thanatophidia of India; being a Description of the Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula, folio, Lond., 1872; and Dr. Albrecht Gurther’s Reptiles of British India, 8vo, Lond., 1864 (Ray Society’s publication), will tell inquirers whether a traveller in the Nilgherry hills, if he had eyes, would have seen more than “two kinds of snakes, and neither of them poisonous.” “No snakes in Virginny” used to be an American proposition, equivalent to the assertion of an imaginative statement. “Few poisonous snakes in the Nilgherries,” is even stronger still.
London, March 12th, 1878.
A Retrospective View of Spiritualism in 1877
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