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[April 2, 
Mr. Horace P. Chandler, and remarks on the same were made by 
Mr. J. H. Emerton. Mr. Emerton also showed models of the spin- 
ning work of some of the common spiders. 
Mr. Chandler showed photographs of a large bowlder which is 
found near Halifax, Nova Scotia. 
General Meeting, April 2, 1890. 
The President, Prof. F. W. Putnam, in the chair. 
The Society first took up the special business of the evening, the 
consideration of the following recommendation of the Council : 
At the last meeting of the Council, it was voted to recommend 
to the Society, at its meeting of April 2, the following resolu- 
tion 
“ Voted , That in pursuance of the policy recorded in the vote of 
March 28, 1888, and adhering to the conditions therein required, 
the Society authorizes the Council, as soon as one-third of the final 
sum required for the establishment of its Natural History Garden 
and Aquaria has been raised, to proceed with the establishment of 
the Aquarium at City Point, in accordance with the plans laid down 
in the letter to the Park Commissioners of Dec. 31, 1889.” 
Mr. S. H. Scudder moved that the above recommendation and 
vote be approved by the Society. The motion was seconded by 
Professor Hyatt and unanimously carried. 
The following paper was then read : 
PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE AMERICAN TERTIARY 
HEMIPTERA. 
BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 
When, in 1853, Heer had completed his classical work on the 
tertiary insects of Europe by the elaboration of the Hemiptera of 
Oeningen, Radoboj and Aix, he published in advance a summary 
statement of the nature of this tertiary hemipterous fauna and its 
relation to the existing faunas of Europe. Having just completed 
a similar study of the hitherto unknown tertiary hemipterous fauna 
