XIV. On the development and succession of the poison-fangs of snakes

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In two papers which described the development of the teeth of Batrachia, Sauria, and Ophidia, which were laid before this Society, and appeared last year in the Philosophical Transactions, I gave a brief résumé of the literature of the subject, so far as it was then known to me. Between the dates of the reading of my paper and of its appearance in the Philosophical Transactions, Dr. Hertwig, of Jena, published a paper on the development of the teeth of Amphibia, in which the figures and the descriptions conform, in most essential particulars, with those accompanying my own paper. Although Dr. Hertwig does not include in his remarks the groups Sauria and Ophidia, I have gladly taken this opportunity to acknowledge his independent and practically contemporaneous publication of results nearly identical with my own. As I have so lately summarized the opinions of other observers upon the development of reptilian teeth ( cf . Phil. Trans, part i., 1875), it will not be necessary for me to recapitulate them again in this paper; but I may be allowed to pass directly to the peculiarities which mark the development of poison-fangs.

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