Show A GREAT SNAKE COLONY an australian enthusiast has fine collection of venomous reptiles mr J mcgarvie smith an eminent bacteriologist of sydney australia is the proprietor of probably the greatest collection of snakes in the world bays the new york world he is in the business partly for scientific purposes and partly for business lie advertised some time ago for venomous reptiles but one publisher refused to permit the advertisement until he had satisfied himself of the sanity of the scientist the different species of venomous snakes in australia so far as known number 42 and sir smith has specimens of all of them the poison extracted from the reptiles is largely used in the pasteur institute in paris mr smith is an enthusiast on the subject of snakes and regards them as the roost wonderful of living creatures he has in his collection serpents that have gone nearly a year without food and arc still fat lie has injected some of their own poison into them without the ill enette to them As a result of his investigations be has established the fact that a nonpoisonous non poisonous snake is not affected in any way by the poison of the venomous species why said smith it does not kill one of its own species while it is so fatal to other creatures is one of the mysteries of the almighty which we cannot unravel |