PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 



1859. 



January 4tli. 

 President Lea in the Chair. 



Forty-eight members present. 



Mr. W. Parker Foulke presented some cones found in April, 1858, by Mr. 

 Samuel I. Goucher, on a peak of the Blue Mountain, near Mount Holly Springs, 

 Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. 



Mr. Durand stated that he had examined these cones, with a few leaves ac- 

 companying them, and had no doubt they were from the Pinuspungens, or table 

 mountain pine, which he believed had not been previously recognized so far 

 north. 



January Will. 

 Dr. Carson in the Chair. 



Thirty-seven members present. 



Mr. Cassin read a letter from Mr, P. B. Duchaillu, dated Fernando 

 Vaz River, Western Africa, September 28th, 1858, containing the 

 following passages: 



" Since I left the Gaboon in 1857, I have explored the Camma or Fernando 

 Vaz river and the Ogobai river, which is a branch of the Camma, but was pre- 

 vented from ascending the latter by the natives. I have ascended also to the 

 distance of about two hundred miles the Rembo and the Ovenga rivers. 



"The country of the Nazareth and the Camma is intercepted by large rivers, 

 creeks and lagoons going in every direction into the interior, and to all of 

 which the natives have given distinct names. Some of these rivers are wide 

 and deep, and would be navigable for steamers to a great distance. In some 

 places the soil is very rich and in others sandy ; the ebony and red wood trees 

 are very abundant. 



" One of the most interesting facts that I have determined is, that the Cannibal 

 tribe (the Paueins) which I met with on the head waters of the river Muni, 

 seem to terminate in the interior, up the Nazareth river, the banks of which are 

 inhabited by various tribes calling themselves Orounga, Ogobai, Pandjai, 

 Aninga, Okanda and Apindgi ; none of these are cannibals, and they speak of 

 the Paueins as farther north and in the interior, and my conclusion is, that 

 this cannibal people either follow the mountains, which I think take here an 

 eastern direction, or that they cease. Up the Rernbo, which is the main branch 



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