Chemistry desk detail: the speckled band...

Photograph detail: the Speckled Band (1951 exhibition)

'"The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes.
I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in India."'

(The Speckled Band)

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