Laurence M. Klauber put length at maturity at two thirds the ultimate length for some rattlesnakes, and Charles C. Carpenter's data on Michigan garter and ribbon snakes ( Thamnophis ) show that the smallest gravid females are more than half as long as the biggest adults.

Klauber ( 1997 ), describes how the keels on the scales of rattlesnakes are particularly strong mid-dorsally, but gradually weaken on the lateral rows with the ventral scales being smooth.

What Holmes said, reported by Watson, was " It is a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India "; but Klauber suggested what Holmes really said was " It is a samp-aderm, the deadliest skink in India.

In the fall of 1934, CBS launched its independent news division, shaped in its first years by Paley's vice-president, former The New York Times man Ed Klauber, and news director Paul White.

As Paley grew more remote, he installed a series of buffer executives who sequentially assumed more and more power at CBS: first Ed Klauber, then Paul Kesten, and finally Frank Stanton.

In an addendum to the Scientific American column, Gardner mentions work of the herpetologist Laurence M. Klauber on two dimensional arrays of prime numbers for finding prime-rich quadratic polynomials which was presented at a meeting of the Mathematical Association of America in 1932 – more than thirty years prior to Ulam's discovery.

Klauber and Neill describe the ability of this species to display different coloration depending on the temperature — a process known as metachrosis.

Brown ( 1973 ) gives a venom yield of 33 mg ( Klauber, 1956 ) and values for mice of 2. 6 mg / kg IV, 3. 0, 4. 0, 2. 3 mg / kg IP and 5. 5 mg / kg SC for toxicity.

Klauber ( 1997 ) includes an account of a man who had been bitten on the first joint of the index finger of the right hand, with only a single fang penetrating.

Also called body-bridging, this is a specific defensive behavior against ophiophagous snakes, first observed in certain rattlesnake ( Crotalus ) species by Klauber ( 1927 ), that involves raising a section of the middle of the body above the ground to varying heights.

A writer in the New York Times referred to the museums's founder under the name Jacqueline Klauber, noting that she used Marchais as her professional name.

Klauber ( 1997 ) considered that they rarely strike further than ½ of their body length, and almost never more than ¾, but that it is still not wise to trust such values if only because it is not possible to accurately judge the length of a coiled snake.

According to Klauber ( 1936, 1971, 1972 ), prey items more frequently taken include rabbits, ground squirrels, tree squirrels, chipmunks, prairie dogs, gophers, rats and mice, while those less frequently taken include birds, snakes and amphibians.

Klauber ( 1936 ) describes how females at an age of 26 months undergo vitellogenesis as they enter their third hibernation, mate the following spring and give birth a number of months later in September or October.

The herpetologist Laurence Monroe Klauber proposed, in a tongue-in-cheek article which blames Dr. Watson for getting the name of the snake wrong, a theory that the swamp adder was an artificial hybrid between the Mexican Gila monster ( Heloderma suspectum ) and Naja naja.

* University Dining Halls, 1916, Day & Klauber.

The important Bailey, Allen, Laughlin and M. Klauber residences were completed by this partnership.

: Generally, the more carefully the areal factor has been investigated, the smaller the size of the residue open to the genetic explanation has tended to become.

St Dunstan's Church has carefully investigated, preserved and sealed this burial vault of the Roper family who lived in Canterbury.

Many of the most carefully investigated sites, including the Mary Rose have relied substantially on avocational archaeologists working over a considerable period of time.

Even as it is being observed carefully ( or being investigated ) by sages, it vanishes like lightning.

' Whereas Christians ( who have learned that their eternal life consists in knowing the only true God, who is over all, and Jesus Christ, whom He has sent ; and who have learned also that all the gods of the heathen are greedy demons, which flit around sacrifices and blood, and other sacrificial accompaniments, in order to deceive those who have not taken refuge with the God who is over all, but that the divine and holy angels of God are of a different nature and will from all the demons on earth, and that they are known to those exceedingly few persons who have carefully and intelligently investigated these matters ) will not endure a comparison to be made between them and Apollo or Zeus, or any being worshipped with odour and blood and sacrifices ; some of them, so acting from their extreme simplicity, not being able to give a reason for their conduct, but sincerely observing the precepts which they have received ; others, again, for reasons not to be lightly regarded, nay, even of a profound description, and ( as a Greek would say ) drawn from the inner nature of things ; and amongst the latter of these God is a frequent subject of conversation, and those who are honoured by God, through His only-begotten Word, with participation in His divinity, and therefore also in His name.

With the rise of modern archaeology in the early 20th Century, the bog bodies began to be excavated and investigated more carefully and thoroughly.

Avi Shlaim, professor of international relations at the University of Oxford, and himself a New Historian, writes that Morris investigated the 1948 exodus of the Palestinians " as carefully, dispassionately, and objectively as it is ever likely to be ", and that The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem is an " outstandingly original, scholarly, and important contribution " to the study of the issue.

::" The great majority of those who have carefully investigated the subject have come to the conclusion that there exists in man, as one of his constituent principles, a certain subtle element, known by the names of animal electricity, animal magnetism, galvanism, the nervous energy, the nervous fluid, etc.

The army said Military Police had carefully investigated the incident but had been unable to establish the soldier's guilt.

An incessant traveler, Caragiale carefully investigated everyday life in most areas of the Romanian Old Kingdom and Transylvania.

Against this law Demosthenes delivered ( 354 BC ) his well-known speech " Against Leptines " in support of the proposal of Ctesippus that all the cases of immunity should be carefully investigated.

The AHP is included in most operations research and management science textbooks, and is taught in numerous universities ; it is used extensively in organizations that have carefully investigated its theoretical underpinnings.

the King searched, inquired, and investigated carefully and brought the sages together that they might argue about their respective religions.

" This extraordinary report stands printed in a Government publication, signed by men who were, or are, eminent in mechanics, and we can only deplore the stupidity, as well as presumption of the commission who thus disposed of a subject that had twenty years before been carefully investigated by such men as Sir John Rennie, Professor Cowper, Mr. Whitelaw, Dr. James Black, Professor Rankine, and many others.

Later on he was engaged for about three years at Dolgelly, another though small gold-mining region, and here he carefully investigated the rocks and fossils of the Lingula Flags, his observations being published in an important and now classic memoir in the Geological Magazine for 1867.

Thus, the subject of emissions must be carefully investigated before concluding that natural materials are always the healthiest alternatives for occupants and for the Earth.

The fight against corruption continued in Perugia, where Pecci himself investigated several incidents.

Hector Berlioz investigated Castor et Pollux and particularly admired the aria " Tristes apprêts ," but " whereas the modern listener readily perceives the common ground with Berlioz ' music, he himself was more conscious of the gap which separated them.

Miami liquor wholesaler Michael Gallagher ( Newman ) is the son of a deceased criminal who awakes one day to find himself a front-page story in the local newspaper, indicating that he is being investigated in the disappearance and presumed murder of a local longshoreman union official, Joey Diaz.

At that time, Bennett had already investigated the Sufi origins of many of Gurdjieff's teachings, based on both Gurdjieff's own numerous statements, and on travels Bennett himself made in the East where he met various Sufi Sheikhs.

In 2010, the Finnish police investigated whether Vanhanen had been wrong not to disqualify himself in certain cabinet decisions on financial contributions to an organization affiliated with the Centre Party, which had previously financed Vanhanen's presidential campaign.

Mulder investigated the X-Files by himself until March 1992, when Dana Scully, an instructor at the FBI Academy, was partnered with him for the purpose of applying scientific reasoning to Mulder's work and theories.

In 1965, while the " Aspida " conspiracy within the Hellenic Army, alleged by the political opposition to involve Andreas personally, was being investigated, George Papandreou moved to fire the defense minister and assume the post himself.

Fritz Zwicky, in his paper proposing these models investigated a number of redshift explanations, ruling out some himself.

After the September 11, 2001 attacks, she was investigated for a sequence of payments allegedly made to a Saudi national by the name of Omar al-Bayoumi, who is known to have assisted two of hijackers upon their arrival in Southern California, and who himself is suspected of being a Saudi intelligence asset. Investigation has confirmed that some of the payments were in fact forwarded to al-Bayoumi's wife, Manal Bajadr, the significance of these payments ( and the extent to which they may have assisted the hijackers ) is unclear.

Suspicions regarding Malaxa's alleged communism, dismissed early in the era of McCarthyism by Rădescu, were investigated in 1958 by the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, and centered on rich gifts he had sent to Communist leaders such as Ana Pauker — Malaxa defended himself by arguing that these had been sent in order to ensure his family's safe passage into America.

He was engineer, with Sir James Brunlees, of the original Channel Tunnel Company from 1872, but many years previously he had investigated for himself the question of a tunnel under the Strait of Dover from an engineering point of view, and had come to a belief in its feasibility, so far as that could be determined from borings and surveys.

In 1911, he talked himself into a job with a New York detective firm where he created reports that contained so many clues that they must either be investigated further ( at a substantial cost ) or denounced utterly.

In 1810, Wood found himself at the centre of a scandal when he investigated a rape case.

Torello finds himself being investigated by Breitel and the feds for corruption, based primarily on the testimony of Holman.

According to Isikoff, as based on his sources, Armitage told Bob Woodward Plame's identity three weeks before talking to Novak, and Armitage himself was aggressively investigated by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, but was never charged because Fitzgerald found no evidence that Armitage knew of Plame's covert CIA status when he talked to Novak and Woodward.

Pinochet himself had been indicted by the Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón in 1998 after complaints presented by Victoria Saavedra and the Mujeres de Calama ( Calama's Women ), which included the Caravan of Death case investigated by Guzmán Tapia.