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to describe or to enumerate the ophidians of a particular 
country, or at least to collect materials for the faunas of differ- 
ent regions of the globe. Besides the grand works already 
mentioned on the East Indies, Brazil, North America, and 
Egypt, the Monograph of the Serpents of the environs of 
Borne by Metaxa is particularly distinguished ; those of 
Hungary, published by Frivaldszky ; of Switzerland, by 
Wyder ; of Lithuania, by Drumpelmann ; of Italy, by the 
Prince of Musignano ; of Germany by Sturm ; of Holland, 
by Van Lier ; and of North America, by Harlan ; many 
philosophers, as Wolf, Meissner, Wagner, Boie, Vosmaer, 
Fleischman, Boddaert, Gronovius, Bell^. Gray, Lich- 
tenstein, Brandt, and Batzeburg, and some others, have 
published detached observations on the nature of snakes, 
which have extended the boundaries of our knowledge, by 
the descriptions they have given of new species. 
It is also proper to notice the labours by which anato- 
mists and physiologists have, especially in later times, 
illustrated ophiology. The fine and numerous experiments 
on the poison of the Viper, by Bedi, Oharas, and especially 
by F ONTANA, and the description which those philosophers 
have given of the poisonous apparatus, are worthy of the 
attention of the naturalists of every period. Celebrated 
anatomists such as Cuvier, and Meckel, have, in their 
Manuals on Zootomy, demonstrated the^ organization of 
serpents ; others, such as Cloquet, Duvernoy, Mayer, 
TiEDEMANN, ScHLEMM, WiNDISCHMANN, J. MiiLLER, &c., 
have furnished interesting dissertations on the various 
organs of those animals ; M. Herholdt has made researches 
on the physiology of our indigenous species. A crowd of 
other observers, in fine, whose names I shall quote in their 
proper place, have contributed to extend our knowledge of 
the natural history of serpents. 
