

PSYCHE. 



ORGAN OF THE CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB 



EDITED BY GEORGE DIMMOCK AND B. PICKMAN MANN. 



Vol. II.] Cambridge, Mass., Jan.-Feb., 1878. [Nos. 45-46. 

 Recent Progress of Entomology In North America. 



FIRST ANNUAL ADDRESS OP THE PRESIDENT. 



In selecting a subject for the first address from this chair, I 

 have had in mind the principal objects of our Club. We have 

 favored the biological side of our science — taking biology in its 

 broadest sense — as the -most important, the most interesting, 

 and yet on the whole the least known. Anatomical studies also 

 enter into our plan, but mere descriptive entomology, so far at 

 least as it relates to perfect forms, and all vexed questions of 

 nomenclature, have been almost wholly ignored, both at our 

 meetings and in our journal. For, however important these 

 latter subjects may be — to which, indeed, our members have 

 elsewhere given a fair sliare of attention — • we have desired, in 

 the formation of our Club, and the establishment of our journal, 

 to uphold the superior value of questions which have a more 

 direct philosophical bearing. If, from time to ti^ne, we pause, 

 and consider the work already accomplished, we shall be stimu- 

 lated to better and more earnest endeavor for the future ; we 

 shall see the direction in which we need to advance, and can 

 draw comparisons whicli are not without value. I propose tlien 

 a general review of recent progress in this country, in the 

 direction of our favorite studies. B}" proper grouping we may 

 obtain a better idea of what has been accomplished. A separate 

 reference to each paper by name will hardly be necessary, since 

 the review is confined to the publications of a single year (1877), 

 and the admirable record of our diligent Secretary will soon 

 place the complete series in our hands. 



Histories of insects furnish the fundamental data upon which 



