F. M. Carpenter.
Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Cambridge Entomological Club.
Psyche 56(4):174, 1949.

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Psyche
SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CAMBRIDGE ENTO- MOLOGICAL CLUB.-As this issue of Psyche goes to press, plans are being made for a 75th anniversary meeting of the Cambridge Entomological Club, on December 20,1949. The Club was formed on January 9, 1874, by thirteen local entomologists, who met at Dr. Hagen's house. In addition to Hagen the group included Samuel Scudder, A. S, Packard, Samuel Henshaw, Edward Burgess, George Dimmock, J. H. Emerton, E. Schwarz, E. 1'. Austin, B. P. Mann, J. C. Munro, G. R. Crotch and H. R. Morrison. The first scientific communication of that evening was a discussion by Dr. Hagen of an amber insect from Maryland. At the fourth meeting, on April 10, 1874, the members voted to publish a monthly journal, named Psyche. Five hundred printed copies of the first issue were brought to the next meeting, on May 8. With- in the next few years many well-known entomologists joined the Club, among them being H. R. Grote, Baron Osten-Sacken, Samuel Williston, J. L. Leconte, C. V. Eiley, J. A. Lintner and W. H. Edwards. The Club was incorporated on February 9, 1877. Most of the early meetings were held at Scudder's house, on Brattle St., Cambridge.
After 1900 the group met at either the
Boston Society of Natural History building or the Appa- lachian Mountain Club rooms. Subsequent to the ap- pointment of W. M. Wheeler at Harvard University in 1910, the meetings have been held at one of the IJniver- sity's buildings-the Bussey Institution until 1931, and the Biological Laboratories from then until the present time. The 75th Anniversary Meeting will be the 647th meeting since the formation of the Club. Psyche is now in its 56th volume.-F. M. CARPENTER.




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