Indian cobra vacuum physics View of St James's Church

View of St James's Church

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Indian cobra vacuum physics View of St James's ChurchFull body study of an Indian cobra ('Naja tripudians'), including variant name 'Dudia Keautiah'. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 2 of 'The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life, and a series of experiments', by Sir Joseph Fayrer FRS (1824 1907), J & A Churchill, London, 1872. Original: watercolour on