Punch,  42 (1862), 102.

'Here's a Coil, My Masters'

Anon

Genre:

Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Animal Development, Heat, Instruments, Zoological Gardens


    Reports on, and sympathises with, the complaint of the python at the Zoological Society Gardens that she is not being allowed to hatch her eggs without the intrusion of Enrico A L Negretti and Joseph W Zambra's thermometers on her 'maternal coils'.



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