1. Snakes never voluntarily traverse rough or broken ground: it is therefore advisable in snake-infested localities to surround your dwelling with a cordon or belt of broken bricks or kunkur—a breadth of three or four feet is quite sufficient for the purpose.—_Dr. Norman Chevers._ 2. Be careful, especially during the wet season, to keep the verandahs, &c., free from frogs: a frog is a temptation which a snake has little or no power to resist.—_Dr. Norman Chevers._ The same remark is equally applicable to rats. 3. In the cold season, if you see a snake coiled up or in an apparently lifeless state in an open, well-frequented road or pathway, be careful how you approach him. Should you handle or disturb him roughly, he will in all probability rouse up and bite you. He is only torpid from cold, not dead.—_Dr. Norman Chevers._ 4. Have a piece of perforated zinc or tin fitted to the opening made for the purpose of carrying off the water out of the bath-room, if it be on the ground floor. A similar piece should be added to the bottom of the bath-room door should it not (as it rarely does) reach the ground beneath.—_Mr. Arthur J. Waring._ 5. Discard vegetation, especially thick straggling shrubs like the Rangoon Creeper, close to your house. They are very apt to harbour snakes. 6. Important as are the above "Precautions," they are comparatively of small moment compared with the destruction—extermination if possible—of the snakes themselves. And this can only be efficiently carried out under Government supervision. That this is the only mode of effectually grappling with this gigantic evil, under which thousands of lives are annually sacrificed—the numbers are 19,060 in 1880, and 18,610 in 1881, besides 4568 cattle in the two years—is forcibly set forth by Sir Joseph Fayrer in two able papers in _Nature_, December 28, 1882, and January 18, 1883. Most earnestly is it to be hoped that Government, agreeably to his suggestion, will lose no time in establishing a department, with a responsible chief and subordinate agents, under whom a system of organised, determined, and sustained efforts for the destruction of the snakes shall be adopted and carried out. It would be a public boon if Sir Joseph's two papers were reprinted in pamphlet form, and circulated throughout the length and breadth of India.