Abstract
IN NATURE, vol. xx. p. 530, Dr. H. F. Hutchinson, amid some interesting facts about snakes, says: “I have never witnessed the process of skin-shedding, nor, I believe, has any observer.” The Doctor then ventures an ingenious, though incorrect, hypothesis of his own. In the American Naturalist for January, 1875, i.e., vol. ix. No. 1, under the title, “The Pine Snake of New Jersey,” I gave an article embodying the results of several years' study of Pituophis melanoleucus, in which the process of exuviation is described as witnessed by myself. Herewith is an abstract. The few words interpolated for the sake of clearer exposition are put in brackets.
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LOCKWOOD, S. How Snakes shed the Skin. Nature 21, 56–57 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021056b0
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