Scudder.] 60 [May 3, 



no member of the heteropterous division of Hemiptera has been 

 discovered in paleozoic rocks. Yet should the beds prove to be 

 paleozoic it introduces a strangely discordant element among 

 American paleozoic cockroaches; for all of the more than twenty 

 species known to me altogether agree in their general features 

 with those from the old world ; or where they do not, as in the 

 family Mylacridae, they represent, as I have pointed out, a more 

 primeval type. In explorations at the locality near Fairplay, the 

 coming summer, I hope to do something toward solving the ques- 

 tion of the real age of the deposit. 



General Meeting. May 17, 1882. 



The President, Mr. S. H. Scudder, in the chair. Sixty-five 

 persons present. 



Mr. T. T. Bouve showed some sand from a beach on the out- 

 side of Marblehead Neck, containing grains of magnetite of iron 

 mixed with small garnets. No rock from this locality is known to 

 contain these minerals, but the sand points to the former exis- 

 tence of one which has been entirely worn away by the action of 

 the sea. Mr. Bouve also showed a rich collection of beautiful and 

 valuable gems, and commented on the ignorance of jewellers re- 

 garding many species. 



The following paper was read : 



SOME NEW EVIDENCES OF CANNIBALISM AMONG THE IN- 

 DIANS OF NEW ENGLAND FROM THE ISLAND OF MT. 

 DESERT, ME. 



BY HENRY W. HAYNES. 



During the past three summers I have spent considerable time 

 in the study of various Indian shell-heaps to be found in different 

 parts of the island of Mt. Desert ; more especially of the one at 



