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Carolina, with whom I have been acquainted for a number of 

 years. He was much interested in my ground rattlesnake, and 

 stated that he had never before seen a specimen from North 

 Carolina. The records in his list are "Wilmington (Cope), 

 Bogue and Shackleford's Banks (Coues 1871)." 



While the swelling of my arm had disappeared by April 30 

 my finger was still much swollen and I could not bend it very 

 well, it was painful to pressure about the second joint. From 

 this time on it gradually improved and now at the time of writ- 

 ing, eighteen months after I was bitten, has regained nearly its 

 normal size and condition, although on cold days it is numb, 

 showing that the circulation is not as perfect as it is in the other 

 fingers of the same hand. 



