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[Meetings. 
General Meeting. April 19 , 1882 . 
Vice-President, Mr. F. W. Putnam, in the chair. Twenty 
persons present. 
Mr. T. T. Bouve announced the gift of a number of minerals, 
and the Society’s thanks were voted to Messrs. C. S. Bement of 
Philadelphia, and W. J. Knowlton of Boston, for the same. 
Mr. Frederic Gardiner. Jr., described the methods adopted by 
the U. S. Fish Commission for artificial propagation of salmon. 
Dr. W. S. Bigelow gave a brief summary of our present knowl- 
edge of the Bacteria, describing particularly recent methods of 
cultivating the lowest organism, and discussing their supposed 
relations to various diseases. 
Section of Entomology. April 26 , 1882 . 
Mr. S. H. Scudder in the chair. Seven members present. 
Mr. Scudder showed a mounted specimen of Scolopendrella 
taken by Mr. S. Henshaw in West Roxbury. This belongs to a 
new species , 1 as marked differences noticed by Mr. Scudder clearly 
prove. Mr. Scudder also showed hairs of Polyxenus and described 
their structure. 
Mr. Henshaw stated that with these forms he had also found 
Pauropus, Campodea, and a larval hexapod Scolopendrella. 
Mr. F. C. Bowditch alluded to the value of honey for insect 
collecting in place of “sugaring.” Mr. Bowditch also mentioned 
recent captures of Buprestis punctulata. 
Dr. Hagen said that he recently found a specimen of Clothilla 
with three well-developed ocelli. 
1 See these Proceedings, xxii, 64. 
