Psyche 
[March 
Dr. Hagen had held his professorial position for four years now, his 
first course of lectures had been given only the previous summer, 
and its enrollment had been but one student, J. H. Comstock; when 
he did formally teach, Dr. Hagen’s courses consisted of “lectures, 
given at rare intervals to advanced students.” As this might indicate, 
Dr. Hagen’s principal work and real devotion were centered about 
the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and to him other interests 
were secondary. So although most influential in the formation of the 
Entomological Club, and an enthusiastic supporter of its activities, 
Dr. Hagen did not wish any responsibility toward running it. Thus, 
when at this first meeting Dr. Hagen declined to take the chair (as 
he declined, or resigned from every office for which he was ever pro- 
posed in the Club), Samuel Scudder was chosen as chairman. 
A graduate of Williams College and Harvard’s Lawrence Scien- 
tific School, Samuel Scudder had been an assistant to Agassiz, and 
at the time of the Club’s founding was nearly 38 years old. Once 
considered “the greatest Orthopterist America has produced,” he also 
worked on the diurnal Lepidoptera. and, as the foremost American 
student of fossil insects in his time, served as paleontologist to the 
U.S. Geological Survey from 1886 to 1892 [2]. Scudder was also 
a competent editor and a bibliophile; he served as assistant librarian 
of Harvard College and librarian of the American Academy of Arts 
and Sciences. Yet despite these and many other time consuming 
activities and before illness finally forced his withdrawal from active 
participation in 1903, he held various formal offices in the Cambridge 
Entomological Club for a total of eighteen years. 
Samuel Scudder having been appointed to the chair, the meeting 
moved on to the first order of business — the establishment of some 
guidelines for the new organization. Voting to keep it as informal 
as possible, “no more rules being made than are necessary,” the 
members decided that the new Cambridge Entomological Club should 
have only one permanent officer, a secretary; to fill this position, 
they wisely chose 26 year old Benjamin Pickman Mann [5]. The 
son of Horace Mann, well known as a teacher and advocate of public 
schools, Benjamin had graduated from Harvard College only four 
years previously. He was a conscientious researcher, a specialist in 
entomological literature and bibliography, who for many years to 
come would not only keep careful record of all Club proceedings, but 
serve as treasurer, librarian, and editor of the Club’s publication. 
After Mann’s appointment and the decision to hold the next meet- 
ing at Scudder’s home, the Scientific Communications of the evening 
