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[9]. Of nearly identical age was George Dimmock, a Harvard fresh- 
man who had a strong interest in insects, especially Coleoptera and 
Lepidoptera. Although on graduating from college he spent several 
years at the University of Leipzig in Germany, from which he re- 
ceived his doctorate, he later returned to Cambridge and for many 
years continued to be active in the Entomological Club [10]. Young- 
est of all the founders of the Club was Herbert K. Morrison, only 
19 years old, an energetic and serious student of noctuid moths. His 
experience on the first of the Club’s excursions to the White Moun- 
tains in New Hampshire, a few months later, induced him to become 
a professional insect collector. During the next decade, he collected 
extensively in the United States, especially in such little-known re- 
gions as Washington Territory, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada, 
and he 'furnished countless specimens of many orders to specialists in 
this country and Europe. His death at the early age of 31 terminated 
a brilliant entomological career [ 1 1 ] . 
Also at this first meeting there was a European coleopterist, Eugene 
A. Schwarz. Born in Germany, he received his training at the Uni- 
versities of Breslau and Leipzig. In 1872, at the age of 28, he came 
to the Museum of Comparative Zoology as an assistant to Hagen. 
He was to stay in Cambridge only a few years, however, leaving in 
1875 on several collecting trips and finally joining other entomolo- 
gists in the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, where 
he remained until his death in 1928 [12]. Very little can be said 
about the two remaining members present at the meeting. E. P. 
Austin, who was in the mining business, was an amateur coleopterist 
and published several papers on beetles in the course of the next few 
years, but he was not active in the Club after 1882. Even less is 
known of J. C. Munro, who lived in Lexington; he appears not to 
have attended any other meetings of the Club. 
One individual, George R. Crotch, although not present at the 
first meeting, or in fact any other meeting of the Club, was regarded 
by all as one of the founders. He had become interested in insects, 
especially Coleoptera, while an undergraduate at Cambridge Uni- 
versity in England. He had collected extensively in Europe and in 
late 1872 he had come to this country to collect insects in the western 
states. He was a very energetic and enthusiastic entomologist and a 
prolific writer [13]. In late 1873, at the age of 31, he accepted a 
position as assistant at the Museum with Hagen. By the end of that 
