1924] Early History of the Cambridge Entomological Club 
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W. B. Allen 
E. P. Austin 
F. Blanchard 
Geo. Dimmock 
G. M. Dimmock (father of George) 
R. W. Greenleaf 
B. P. Mann 
H. K. Morrison 
The party was joined later by J. H. Emerton and J. C. Mimro. 
The eighth meeting, August 14, 1874, at Hartford, Conn, 
was attended by Messrs. Austin, Dimmock and Mann, and they 
were joined by C. J. S. Bethune, S. S. Haldeman, J. L. Leconte, 
J. G. Morris, J. A. Lintner, C. V. Riley, Wm. Saunders, and 
other wellknown entomologists of the time. At the meeting of 
September 11, The Entomological Club of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science was organized to con- 
tinue such meetings. 
In the following year, July, 1875, another field meeting 
was held on Mt. Washington, this time with 24 persons — 6 of 
them members of the Club, 18 guests: 10 of them men, 14^ 
women. The August meeting was again with the American 
Association at Detroit, Mich. 
In 1877, the Club was incorporated, a constitution and 
by-laws were adopted, and the membership revised, after which 
there were 24 resident members and 23 non-resident; a by-law 
defined a resident member as one who lived where he could 
attend meetings and get home the same night. The average 
attendance at meetings was for the first year 11.1; second year, 
11.8; third year, 7.4 The first volume of ‘Tsyche’’ was finished 
in 1877 with a deficit of $128.39; the running expenses of the 
Club in 1877 having been only $3.00. 
The first meeting of the executive committee was on March 
17, 1877, when it was proposed to start the collection of a pub- 
lication fund of $2000. A circular was sent out in which was 
the following statement of the Club’s objects: 
“While the headquarters of the Club are in Cambridge and its welfare 
would redound particularly to the credit of that city, its membership extends 
over the whole of North America and its advantages are offered with entire 
liberality to all the entomologists of the country, as far as practicable. There 
is but one other incorporated entomological society in the United States — 
The American Entomological Society in Philadelphia^ — and none other that 
is actually engaged at the present time in work of general interest.’’ 
