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Mar. 81, 181 G. A more suitable name could not be se- 

 lected to desiiruate this place. He also called attention 

 to the desirai)leness of making a complete collection of 

 pi-inted matter pertaiuing to Essex county and invited 

 co-operation iu this direction. 



Mr. James H. Emertox, of Salem, being first called 

 upon, said that he had found in the vv'oods between the 

 railroad and the grove two spiders of peculiar structure 

 and habits, Ci/llopodia cavala, whose Aveb is described by 

 Prof. Wilder in the Proc. Am. Assoc, for the Adv. Sci. for 

 1878, and Argyvodes tru/onum, which usually lives among 

 the outer threads of the webs of lai'ger spiders, several 

 individuals occupying the same web without interlering 

 with each other or with the owner. Tiiese spiders do, 

 however, sometimes live b}^ themselves, and one was 

 found in a w^eb appai-ently of her own make, between 

 two maple leaves. The s[)lder held herself partly hidden 

 under the upper leaf and below hung her two cocoons of 

 eggs. These si)iders resemble in color aud size the scales 

 which drop from the pine buds and hang in the webs and 

 are easily mistaken for them. 



Several residents at the grove called attention to great 

 numbers of insects going up the trunks of the trees. 

 These were the young of a species of Psocus. They live 

 on mould and other microscopic plants and wander over 

 the trees after them in flocks of several hundred individ- 

 uals. Some persons l)elieved they had been stung l)y 

 them, but this is improbable, as the insects have no stings 

 and their jaws are short and not adapted for piercing the 

 skin. 



Mr. J. P. Magee, Seci-etary of Asbury Grove Associ- 

 ation, who was next called upon, spoke of camp meet- 



