Russell, P.

Remarks on the voluntary expansion of the skin of the neck in the Cobra de Capello or hooded snake of the East Indies (and) Observations on the orifices found in certain poisonous snakes situated between the nostril and the eye with some remarks on the structure of those orifices and the description of a bag connected with the eye met with in the same snakes by E. Home, and several more contributions from the Philisophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year 1804.

London, The Philosophical Society, 1804. 4to. VI, 434, 26 pp., 4 ll. and 6 other engravings in total being 8 plates. Contemporary full calf with gilt title on red and green morocco labels on spine. *Rare two small contributions on East-Indian snakes, the first with 7 pp. and 2 fine folded engravings, the second with 7 pp., 1 folded engraving. Some more interesting contributions in this volume are: V. Rumford, An account of a curious phenomenon observed on the glaciers of Chamouny and an Enquiry concerning the Nature Heat and the mode of its communication; R. Woodhouse, On the integration of certain differential expressions with which problems in physical Astronomy are connected; Th. Knight, Experiments and observations on the motion of the sap in trees; W. Herschel, Continuation of an account of the Changes that have happened in the relative situation of double Stars; S. Tennant, On two metals found in the black powder remaining after the solution of Platina; W. Wollaston, On a new Metal found in crude Platina a.o. Papers no. IX and X are (partly) paginated out of sequence. There are no references found to plate 6, which is lacking. The herpetological articles are complete. We have more of the Philisophical Transactions, please ask.

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