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PSYCHE. 
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., JULY-SEPT. 1881. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. 
14 JAN. 1881.— 73rd meeting. This being 
the seventh annual and the fourth annual 
corporate meeting, an election of officers for 
the year was held, with the following result: 
President, H: Laurens Mark; Secretary and 
Treasurer, B: Pickman Mann; Librarian, 
Clifford Chase Eaton; Executive Committee, 
The President, Secretary and Treasurer, ex 
oficiis, and S: Hubbard Scudder, E: Payson 
Austin and E: Burgess; E£dztor of Psyche, 
B: Pickman Mann. 
Mr. W: Trelease, Prof. Selim Hobart Pea- 
body, and Mr. J: Sterling Kingsley were 
elected members. 
The retiring president, E: Burgess, made, 
in place of an annual address, some remarks 
upon the internal structure of the head of the 
cockroach ‘and grasshopper, illustrated by 
original drawings, which he had prepared 
for the second report of the United States 
Entomological commission. 
The death of Mr. Edwin C: Prentiss, the 
compositor upon the third volume of Psycuer, 
who had so faithfully carried on his business 
connection with the publication, was an- 
nounced. [See Psycue, Oct. 1880 (12 Feb. 
1881), v- 3, p- 128. ] 
11 Fes. 1881.—74th meeting. The fourth 
annual report of the Secretary and Treasurer, 
dated as of the January meeting, was read. 
Five members have been elected during the 
past year. The present number of resident 
members is sixteen and that of non-resident 
members fifty-nine, an increase of three. Of 
107 persons elected members, 5 have died and 
27 have retired from various other causes. 
Thirteen principal communications have been 
presented by five members. The second 
volume of PsycHE, except the indices, has 
been completed and distributed. The deficit 
upon the account of the first volume of 
PsycHE is now $76.64, and that upon the 
second volume $126.16, with considerable ex- 
penses still to be incurred, leaving out of 
account the cash advanced toward defraying 
the expenses of the second volume by one 
of the members of the Club. 
Owing to the arrangement made for the 
publication of the third volume, the deficit 
does not appear upon the Treasurer’s books. 
The permanent publication fund amounts 
to $173.05. 
The report of the Librarian shows the 
library to be in good condition, containing 
799 publications exclusive of separate volume 
numbers. The principal source of accession 
has been as usual, by gift from individuals 
and societies, the Club having no funds with 
which to buy books. <A card catalog of the 
works in the library is nearly completed. 
(Lo be continued.) 
GOSSE’s OBSERVATIONS ON THE BUTTER- 
FLIES OF NORTH AMERICA. 
GossE, whose popular writings on English 
natural history are well known, spent several 
years in Canada, a year in Alabama, and 
some time in Jamaica. He has recorded his 
out-door observations in these places in three 
distinct books, all of them now very rare, 
and to many scarcely known. That upon 
Jamaica covered the birds only; the others 
were of a more miscellaneous character and 
were entitled ‘‘ The Canadian naturalist; a 
series of conversations on the natural history 
of Lower Canada” (London, 1840. 12-+372 
p-, 12°); and ‘‘ Letters from Alabama, U. St, 
chiefly relating to natural history” (London, 
1859. 12-+306 p., 16°). His residence in 
Canada was fixed at Sherbrooke, a short 
