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on a vacation last season I chanced one day to fall in with this 
famous trapper, and had from his lips the following : “I became 
satisfied years ago that foxes often helped their fellows out of 
trouble. Not long ago I went out as usual in late autumn an 
set some traps for foxes. Sickness called me away from home, 
so that I did not get an opportunity to visit my traps for more 
than a week. In the meantime there had been a light fall of snow. 
When I had a leisure half day I shouldered my gun and went out 
to see what the sport was. My traps were all unmolested except 
one, that was nowhere to be found. I began to circulate around 
the place where it had been, taking a wider and wider sweep every 
time. At length, about a quarter of a mile distant from where it 
had been placed, in a dense piece of woods, I found my missing 
trap and a fox in it, fast by the leg. The old fellow was remarka- 
bly fresh and active, although he had been in the trap apparently 
for some days. The snow about him was well trodden down, and 
lying all around him, within in his reach, were an abundance of 
dead mice. If his fox friends could not release the captive, they 
were determined that he should not starve.” —3B. S. Rideout, in 
Forest and Stream, Fune 26th, 1884. 
ANTHROPOLOGY .' 
ANTHROPOLOGY IN France.—Dr. E. T. Hamy, curator of eth- 
nology in the National Museum at Paris, has sent us several bro- 
chures, of which he is the author, and whose contents will be 
briefly noticed : 
La croix de Teotihuacan, Mém. lu al’Acad. des Inscriptions 
et Belles Lettres, Nov., 1882.” Paris, E. Leroux, 23 p. This 
Pamphlet describes two cruciform figures exhumed by M. Char- 
nay in 1880, at Teotihuacan, north of the San Juan river and 
West of the avenue leading to the palace of the moon. After 
giving a comprehensive sketch of Spanish authorities upon the 
Sculptured crosses of Mexico, Dr. Hamy ‘defends the opinion 
that the Mexican crosses in question are the, symbols of Tlaloc, 
god of rain and storm, and of the mountain. Other types 
Crosses are derived from the tree, the serpent, or from fancy. The 
transfer of the cross symbol from Tlaloc to Quetzalcoatl is ex- 
plained in the closing chapter. 
ote sur les Figures et les Inscriptions gravées dans la roche a 
adj-Memoun, near Figuig. Paris, E. Leroux, p. 11. 
Note sur une Inscription Chronographique de la fin de la péri- 
ode Aztéque appartenant au Musée du Trocadéro. Paris, E. Le- 
roux, 1883, p. 14. This brochure is devoted to the description of 
a tablet of polished obsidian, 5 x 16 x 21 cm.,, collected by M. 
art, and bearing a chronographic inscription, which Dr. Hamy 
concludes to be December 9, 1483, the date of the commence- 
ment of the great teocalli of Mexico. 
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