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specimens which have been and are in the possession of the Zoological Society, and other proprietors. It was apparently used in the past. Certain Carthaginian coins are stamped with a figure of the African Elephant; but in Africa no attempts are now made to utilise this creature except for food and ivory.
Fig. 117.—African Elephant. Elephas africanus. × 1⁄56. (After Sir Samuel Baker.)
The meaning of an Elephant as an emblem, upon a coin appears to be eternity, and there is no question but that the
