PSYCHE 
VOL. XXXI. FEBRUARY 1924 
No. 1 
EARLY HISTORY OF THE CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLO- 
GICAL CLUB. 
By J. H. Emerton. 
Before the year 1874 the entomologists around Boston had 
been accustomed to meet as a section of the Boston Society of 
Natural History/ but some of them had ambitious plans in 
their minds: they wanted to publish a journal, to meet outside 
of Boston and to have members from all over the country, so a 
new society was planned and as a large proportion of the mem- 
bers lived in Cambridge, the society was formed there. 
January 9, 1874, at the house of H. A. Hagen, Putnam 
Street, Cambridge, the following persons met and agreed to 
form the Cambridge Entomological Club: 
E. P. Austin 
Edw. Burgess 
G. R. Crotch 
Geo. Dimmock 
H. G. Hubbard 
C. R. Osten-Sacken 
Roland Thaxter 
C. P. Whitney 
J. H. Emerton 
H. A. Hagen 
S. Henshaw 
B. P. Mann 
S. H. Scudder 
F. G. Sanborn 
G. D. Smith 
P. S. Sprague 
Holmes Hinkley 
H. K. Morrison 
J. C. Munro 
A. S. Packard 
E. A. Schwarz 
members were elected, 
F. C. Bowditch 
L. Trouvelot 
S. W. Williston 
F. Blanchard 
During the year a large number of 
among them 
The only officer thought necessary was a secretary, and 
B. P. Mann was elected to this office. Meetings were held at 
Un January 1864 members of the Boston Society of Natural History 
organized the Harris Entomological Club which formed the nucleus of the 
Section of Entomology which was organized Nov. 25, 1866 and continued to 
hold meetings until 1886. Its proceedings are reported in the published 
proceedings of the B. S. N. H. 
