This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...already known. This great work, in which BOIE had collected his researches, having been unpublished to the present day, it has happened that extracts have been communicated to many herpetologists, who have hastened to adopt the views of the late BOIE, before the original researches could be laid before ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...already known. This great work, in which BOIE had collected his researches, having been unpublished to the present day, it has happened that extracts have been communicated to many herpetologists, who have hastened to adopt the views of the late BOIE, before the original researches could be laid before the public. It was only in 1827 that M. FR. B011; of Keil published a sketch of the researches of his brother, enriched with his own remarks. The following are the names of the new genera of Ophidians contained in the work of the late M. B011:: --Xenopeltis (REINWARDT); Brachyorrhos (KUHL); Lycodon (Boln); Oligodon (Bout); Amblycephalus (KUHL); Elapodis (Boln); Homalopsis (KUHL); Xenodon (Born); Tropidonotus (KUHL); Herpetodryas (Boln); Dendrophis(Bo1E); Psammophis (Born); and Chrysopelea (BOIE). The specific description of my work being in some measure founded on the labours of BOIE, it may be seen on consulting the memoir I have just mentioned, in what my views differ from those of my predecessor. About the same period appeared several iconographic works and observations on the Fauna of Brazil, which have greatly contributed to clear up one of the most confused departments of the science. The labours of the Pnnvcn of Nnuwnzn deserve to be first mentioned: this august traveller is almost the only person who has made observations on the habits of exotic serpents, and his book must be included among the most precious of those that have ever appeared on Herpetology: his exact, though minute description, cannot fail to be extremely useful; the plates which illustrate them are executed with care, and represent the objects with exactness. We regret not to be able to give the same praise to those published by WAGLER from the specimens collected...
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