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Licking and Muskingum Counties, Ohio. This has been recently 

 described with great minuteness by Mr. Charles M. Smith in an 

 article published in the Smithsonian Report for 1884, part I, p. 

 851, to which I refer you for complete information in regard to it. 

 I have, however, brought here specimens of the material and im- 

 plements manufactured from it, thinking it may be of interest to 

 you to compare them with the materials used for similar purposes 

 by our New England Indians. 



General Meeting, Nov. 3, 1886. 

 The President, Mr. S. H. Scudder, in the chair. 



The following Associate Members were elected : Mr. Arthur P. 

 Chadbourne of Cambridge ; Mr. H. W. Conn of Middletown, Ct., 

 Miss Edith W. Cushman of Cambridge and Mr. John C. Gray of 

 Boston. 



Mr. James H. Emerton described the anatomical development 

 of the milk- weed butterfly in the pupal stage, concerning which 

 he had a paper in preparation. Mr. Emerton also spoke of the 

 habits of flying spiders, which are especially abundant on Boston 

 Common. 



Mr. Scudder showed a piece of fossil juniper wood from inter- 

 glacial deposits near Toronto, showing borings of beetle larvae, 

 belonging to four different families. 



Mr. Putnam spoke of the destructiveness of the large water bug 

 Belostoma in carp ponds, where young carps are destroyed by 

 hundreds. It is hoped that by the use of the electric light, which 

 attracts these bugs in great numbers, they may be gradually ex- 

 terminated. 



A fine skeleton of a baboon, Cynocephalus porcarius, from Sierra 

 Leone was presented by Mr. Holmes Hinckley. 



General Meeting, Nov. 17, 1886. 



The President, Mr. F. W. Putnam, in the chair. 



Prof. G. L. Goodale gave an interesting account of Professor 



Pfeffer's recent investigations showing that coloring matter can be 



absorbed by living vegetable cells, and the bearing of this discovery 



on various questions in vegetable physiology. 



