Peess Comments on the First Edition. 



" This book .... meets a long-felt want, in affording a ready 

 means of identifying a dead snake." .... 



"Invaluable to medical men in India." 



" So far as the venomous kinds are concerned a very little practice 

 with Major Wall's key will enable any one to discover the species 

 with ease and certainty." — Country Queries and Notes, May 190b. 



" The book is arranged in the most lucid manner, and ought to be 

 included in the library of every Anglo-Indian. It reveals a large 

 amount of patient research work, and is interesting throughout." 



— The Pioneer, 9th February 1908. 



*' Of great value to the medical profession as well as to the natur- 

 alist." — Review, Times of India. 



" The book is well adapted to enable medical men and others to iden- 

 tify with the minimum of trouble any of the Indian poisonous land 

 snakes." — Madras Mail. 



"A valuable contribution to the literature of the Thanatophidia of 

 India." — Advocate of India. 



'■' The object of Major Wall's little book is to point out characters 

 of scaling by which, in his opinion, any one should be able to arrive at 



the name of any poisonous snake To many, the system 



proposed in this book will be of real utility We wish 



Major Wall's little work a wide circulation in India.'' 



— G. A. B. Country Life, April 1908. 



