Excerpt from Essay on the Physiognomy of Serpents A desire to add to the literature of his country the researches of so accomplished and philosophical an ophiologist as M. Schlegel, and a wish to afford a safe guide to the British Student of Natural History in this department, have produced the present volume. He would willingly have published a translation of the complete work of M. Schlegel; but the low state of Ophiology in this country deters any book seller from undertaking so large a Work on Serpents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.