The death has occurred in Melbourne of August Eichorn, the famous Australian snake expert who had submitted himself to hundreds of snake bites for exhibition and experimental purposes. He was aged 87. He died from blood poisoning as the result of a scratch from barbed wi v-
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 121, 17 February 1944, Page 6
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