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Paper, 'On the structure of the poisonous fangs of serpents' by Thomas Smith

Reference number: PT/12/24

Date: 1818

Description

10 manuscript pages and one plate showing various types and sections of poisonous fangs.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the structure of the poisonous fangs of serpents'.

Read 4 June 1818.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/12/24
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1818
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Ink on paper
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11 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Smith

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Thomas Smith, Paper, 'On the structure of the poisonous fangs of serpents' by Thomas Smith, 1818, PT/12/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_12_24/paper-on-the-structure-of-the-poisonous-fangs-of-serpents-by-thomas-smith, accessed on 04 December 2025

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