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[166] “Note sur la sécrétion venimeuse de l’Ornithorhynchus paradoxus,” Comptés rendus de la Société de Biologie, March 12, 1904.
[167] “On the Effects of Wounds Inflicted by the Spurs of the Platypus,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1876.
[168] The photographs, by which this note was accompanied, are reproduced in Chapter IV. of this volume, pp. 155, 157, 158.
[169] Polygala telophioides, Will.
[170] We subsequently learnt that he had informed his friends of his intention, but had not said a word about it to his wife.
[171] The thick and cloudy appearance of the contents of the bottles made us hesitate to have recourse to intravenous injection.