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VOL. 3. SALEM, MASS., JANUARY, 1871. No. 1. 



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REGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1871. 



THE President in the chair. Records of preceding 

 meeting read. 



Dr. A. S. PACKARD, Jr., referring to the fine specimen 

 of Triassic fossil fish Gatopterus gracilis Red field, presented 

 this evening by Mr. Russell, stated that he had during 

 the past autumn visited the locality at Sunderland, Mass., 

 which is exposed at low water. The fine blackish slates 

 were in nearly horizontal beds and the fish remains were 

 quite abundant. At Turner's Falls, about J;en miles north 

 of Sunderland, he had visited a large and very complete 

 collection of bird tracks belonging to Mr. T. M. Staugh- 

 ton. The collection included some fine fossil tracks, and 

 plant and insect remains, the latter occurring in nodules 

 at a locality three miles north of Turner's Falls. The 

 insect remains were of one species of an aquatic larva, 

 which had been referred to the Ephemerae by Dr. J. L. 

 Leconte, and called Palephemera medimva, by Hitchcock. 

 On an examination of specimens showing well the head 

 and extremity of the body, Dr. Packard thought they 

 were rather aquatic coleopterous larvae, belonging perhaps 

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