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Mar. 31, 1816. A more suitable name could not be se- 

 lected to designate this place. He also called attention 

 to the desirableness of making a complete collection of 

 printed matter pertaining to Essex county and invited 

 co-operation in this direction. 



Mr. JAMES H. EMERTON, of Salem, being first called 

 upon, said that he had found in the woods between the 

 railroad and the grove two spiders of peculiar structure 

 and habits, Cyllopodia cavafa, whose web is described by 

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

 1873, and Argyrodes triifonum, which usually lives among 

 the outer threads of the webs of larger spiders, several 

 individuals occupying the same web without interfering 

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

 however, sometimes live by themselves, and one was 

 found in a web apparently of her own make, between 

 two maple leaves. The spider held herself partly hidden 

 under the upper leaf and below hung her two cocoons of 

 eggs. These spiders resemble in color and 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 rtfter them in flocks of several hundred individ- 

 uals. Some persons believed they had been stung by 

 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, Secretary of Asbury Grove Associ- 

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



