GREAT SNAKES!
A SCHOOLBOY’S DEADLY DISCOVERY. A healthy cheeked schoolboy walked into the oflice of Dr. Burgess Barnett, the new curator of the Reptile House at the London Zoo. He had a little box, which, he opened with pride. “What do you think of this snake?” he asked. The curator’s eyes widened. He thought a lot. In the box was a long black adder, a dangerous and almost unknown British reptile, which might have bitten the boy and even caused his death. The boy, Robin Copping aged 14, of Selhurst-road, South Norwood, S.E., told Dr. Barnett that he caught the adder at Reigate, Surrey, where he had gone in pursuit of his hobby of hunting for reptiles. The curator later showed a Daily Mail reporter the new arrival as it lay curled in a big glass case in his laboratory. “It is the only one known to be in captivity,” said Dr. Barnett, “and the type is very rare. It is really a black ‘albino,’ and is a poisonous member of the adder family, from the bites of which people have been known to die.”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10886, 12 August 1932, Page 4
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