1924] Proceedings of the Cambridge Entomological Club 245 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOG- 
ICAL CLUB. 
The annual meeting was held January 8, 1924. The sec- 
retary's report showed that 10 meetings were held during the 
year with average attendance of 14.5 continuing the gradual 
decrease since 1920 when it was 22.5. Two members were 
elected and the whole number of members is 73. The editor ^s 
report showed that volume 30 of Psyche just completed contains 
235 pages. During the war the number was reduced to 139 pages 
in 1918 since which there has been a gradual increase. The fol- 
lowing officers were elected, President C. T. Brues, Vice Pres- 
ident R. Heber Howe, Secretary J. H. Emerton, Treasurer 
Fred H. Walker, Editor C. T. Brues. Executive Committee 
A. P. Morse, S. W. Denton, S. M. Dohanian, 
Mr. A. P. Morse retiring from the presidency read a paper 
on Insect Music in English Literature. 
This meeting being the 50th anniversary of the founding of 
the Club, J. H. Emerton one of the original members read a 
paper on its early history which is published in Psyche for 
February 1924, W. L. W. Field followed with an account of the 
Harris Club which was organized in Boston in 1899 and merged 
with the Cambridge Club in 1903. 
At the meeting of February 12, Mr. C. W. Johnson ex- 
plained his system of noting localities in New England where 
insects have been collected. The area is divided into some thirty 
districts numbered serially beginning at the north. In catalog- 
uing only the numbers are used or where a district has to be 
divided the number with a letter added. 
At the meeting of March 11, Prof. Brues read a paper on cer- 
tain Phoridse, minute Diptera many of them without wings. 
Originally found in the tropics, several species of this type have 
later been discovered in northern localities and on snow in winter. 
Prof. W. M. Wheeler read a paper on the Bullhorn Acacias which 
have enormous thorns in pairs at the base of the leaves. Ants 
perforate these thorns while they are green, eat out the pith and 
use them as habitations. See Psyche April 1924. Mr. J. H. 
