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velopment and mutability of all that is excellent for food 

 or gratifying to our taste of the beautiful, among the vast 

 array of the species that compose the Vegetable King- 

 dom. 



Mr. JAMES H. EMERTON of Salem spoke of the insects 

 collected in the morning's ramble, among them some 

 specimens of the lace winged fly (Chrysopa) and its eggs, 

 which had been found attached to grass leaves from a field 

 near the shore, each egg raised upon a hair-like stem. 

 The young larvae of this fly and the structure of their 

 mouths, by which they are enabled to suck the juices of 

 insects without eating the solid parts, were described, with 

 illustrations on the black-board. 



He then passed around among the audience some sixty 

 spiders and several cocoons of spider's eggs, which had 

 been collected in the morning, and made some remarks 

 on them, and the growth of spiders in the egg. 



Rev. J. H. GANNETT of East Gloucester alluded to the 

 appearance of this village as he saw it from the deck of a 

 vessel in the harboK.*some twenty-four years since, and 

 gave a very interesting sketch of its growth, and of the 

 church in which this meeting was held. 



HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST CHUECH IN EAST GLOUCESTER. 



The first Baptist meeting of which there is any recol- 

 lection in East Gloucester, was held about thirty years 

 ago, the Rev. William Lamsoii, pastor of the Baptist 

 church in the town of Gloucester, and now pastor of the 

 Baptist church in the town of Brookline, Mass., preach- 

 ing to a very few persons in a small building used for a 

 school house. 



From this date it appears that they continued to hold 



