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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Boston SOCIETY or NATURAL History. Jan. 16, 1867.—Mr. W. Win- 
wood Reade, referring to his own remarks at a previous meeting, stat- 
ed that as the Cynocephalus must have been known to the Carthage- 
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that this was the animal seen by Hanno in his celebrated voyage, and 
whose skins were hung up in the temple on the arrival home 
account of the manner in which the race of Fans on the West Coast of 
Africa entrap the Elephant, suggesting it as possible that the Elephant 
of the Equator differed m that of Southern Africa, in certain res- 
twenty, instead of large herds, while it is by no means as wary as the 
more Southern form. Having discovered the proximity of Elephants 
in the forest, the Fans build an enclosure in the neighborhood, by sur- 
rounding a somewhat open space of a few acres with a strong, though 
low fence, leaving a small opening on one side. Into this they en- 
tice the Elephants, by scattering food of which they are particularly 
the Nepongwes, who were fast dying off, owing to the insalubri 
the climate, and who themselves, according to their traditions, for- 
merly came from the ‘‘bush,” or interior. The Fans were first made 
known to white men by the discovery of Mr. Wilson in 1852. 
Essex INSTITUTE, Salem. Jan. 21, 1867.—Mr. F. W. Putnam called 
attention to a donation of several Snakes from Hong Kong, and re- 
marked on the reptilian fauna of China, as compared with that of 
North America. 
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