Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net POISONOUS SNAKES OF KANSAS Robert F. Clarke Department of Biology Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia _THE KANSAS SCHOOL NATURALIST_ Vol. 5 No. 3 February 1959 The Kansas School Naturalist _Published by_ The Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia _Prepared and Issued by_ The Department of Biology, with the cooperation of the Division of Education _Editor_: John Breukelman Department of Biology _Editorial Committee_: Ina M. Borman, Robert F. Clarke, Helen M. Douglass, Gilbert A. Leisman, Carl W. Prophet, Dixon Smith Because of the greatly increased cost, due to the color plates, no free copies of this issue will be available. Extra copies may be obtained for 25 cents each, postpaid. Send orders to _The Kansas School Naturalist_, Department of Biology, State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas. _The Kansas School Naturalist_ is sent upon request, free of charge, to Kansas teachers and others interested in nature education. _The Kansas School Naturalist_ is published in October, December, February, and April of each year by The Kansas State Teachers College, Twelfth Avenue and Commercial Street, Emporia, Kansas. Second-class mail privileges authorized at Emporia, Kansas. Poisonous Snakes of Kansas by Robert F. Clarke Many persons either do not know anything at all about the poisonous snakes of our state or have a distorted group of misconceptions concerning them. These misconceptions run from plain misknowledge about the range or identification of poisonous snakes to fancifully elaborate stories in which there may or may not be the barest thread of fact.