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began. Dr. Hagen commented on the discovery of fossil galls, ap- 
parently caused by insects, preserved on a twig in amber from Mary- 
land; this was of special interest to Hagen, since he had published 
extensively on Baltic amber insects while he was still in Germany. 
There then ensued a general discussion of “the senses by which in- 
sects are caused to assembly for sexual or other purposes.” This 
must have been a particularly interesting discussion because of the 
varied backgrounds represented. For example, there was Dr. A. S. 
Packard, who had been one of Agassiz’s students and who had just 
finished his third year as State Entomologist of Massachusetts [6]. 
He and Scudder were nearly the same age and they had been close 
friends since their undergraduate days, but Packard’s experiences had 
been more varied: he had been a surgeon in the Civil War, a Cus- 
todian of the Boston Society of Natural History, a lecturer on ento- 
mology at Massachusetts Agricultural College and Bowdoin College; 
and he had studied marine life along the southeastern coast, and 
had published his well-known “Guide to the Study of Insects.” 
However, his active association with the Entomological Club was 
to be very brief, for he was appointed to a professorship at Brown 
University in 1878, a position which he held until his death in 1905. 
Then, in contrast, there was Edward Burgess, at the age of 26, a 
recent graduate of Harvard College and a former assistant in the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology; he was currently Instructor in 
Entomology at the College, giving the “course of elementary instruc- 
tion in the study of insects.” Although he became known in ento- 
mological circles for his published accounts of insect morphology, 
Burgess later won renown for his contributions to naval architecture 
[7]. At about the same age, there was James H. Emerton, who had 
already foretold his life interest by collecting spiders at over a hun- 
dred localities in New England [8]. A skilled artist, he had recently 
finished the first of innumerable illustrations he would make for 
A. S. Packard, S. H. Scudder, and many other zoologists. A trip 
to Europe and a position as curator in the museum of the Peabody 
Academy of Science at Salem soon removed him from the Cambridge 
scene for a few years but he continued to publish extensively on 
spiders and to take an active part in the Entomological Club until 
his death in 1931. Another member was Samuel Henshaw; at the 
age of 22 and without college training, he was at the time beginning 
to work on the insect collection at the Boston Society of Natural 
History; he subsequently became an assistant in entomology at the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology and later (1912- 1927) its director 
