POISON SHELLS.—This display at the Australian Museum, Sydney, shows some of the types of dangerous tropical cone-shells gathered from North Queensland coastal waters. Police scientific experts have begun exhaustive tests on poison extracted from a tropical shellfish known as Conus geographus. The results of the tests will be studied by police investigating the deaths of Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30157, 14 June 1963, Page 11
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62POISON SHELLS.—This display at the Australian Museum, Sydney, shows some of the types of dangerous tropical cone-shells gathered from North Queensland coastal waters. Police scientific experts have begun exhaustive tests on poison extracted from a tropical shellfish known as Conus geographus. The results of the tests will be studied by police investigating the deaths of Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler. Press, Volume CII, Issue 30157, 14 June 1963, Page 11
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