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Psyche 
[March 
year, however, he had developed tuberculosis and was unable to 
attend the first meeting of the Club. He died six months later.* 
At the second meeting, held at Scudder’s house (156 Brattle 
Street), there were discussions of such topics as the identity of a 
borer destroying an elm tree at Henry W. Longfellow’s house 
(Hagen), of the metamorphosis of the Saturniidae (Morrison) and 
of the preparation of lepidopterous larvae for preservation (Hagen, 
Scudder, Morrison). Seven new members were elected: J. A. Allen, 
C. E. Hamlin, and C. R. Osten Sacken, all assistants at the Mu- 
seum; Dr. Walter Faxon, curator at the Museum; H. G. Hubbard 
and Roland Thaxter, both Harvard undergraduates; and C. P. 
Whitney, of Milford, New Hampshire, the first non-resident mem- 
ber. Osten Sacken began collecting insects, especially Diptera, when 
he was a boy in Russia; he was on the staff of the Russian Legation 
in this country for 27 years but at the age of 45, in 1873, he resigned 
to become an assistant to Hagen. He was an active participant in 
the Entomological Club for the entire period during which he was 
working at the Museum, but after experiencing two winters in 
Cambridge he moved to Rhode Island (a choice “influenced by the 
temperate winter-climate”) ; and in 1877, his work on the Diptera 
of North America finished, he returned to Europe [14]. Hubbard 
became acquainted with E. A. Schwarz at the meetings of the Club 
and shortly after they formed a collecting team, ultimately resulting 
in the famous “Hubbard and Schwarz” collection of Coleoptera [15]- 
The other undergraduate, Thaxter, started as an entomologist and 
was active in the Club for many years, his first ten papers being 
published in Psyche. However, his interest was directed by Pro- 
fessor Farlow towards fungi parasitic on insects, and he subsequently 
became Professor of Cryptogamic Botany at Harvard, with most of 
his research being on these parasitic fungi, especially the Laboul- 
beniales. 
After the third meeting, the Cambridge Entomological Club 
gathered at a little building nicknamed the “eritomologicon,” situated 
in the backyard of B. P. Mann’s residence at 19 Follen Street [16]. 
These early meetings had no planned program; at each meeting, a 
different member was chosen chairman and the minutes and acquisi- 
tions to the Club’s library were read. The remainder of the meeting 
was then opened to general discussion and the exhibition of new 
*The list of signatures of the founding members in the minutes of the 
first meeting includes a line that reads: “This was to have been the place 
for the name of George Robert Crotch, Cambridge, England.” 
