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Psyche 
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materials and curiosities. For its first three years, the Club continued 
in this strictly informal manner, and included not only regular meet- 
ings but excursions to areas df entomological interest. 
At the 7th meeting, July, 1874, a the Chairman had to be con- 
tented with sitting on a rock instead of a chair, a. feat which he 
performed with sufficient grace and dignity, wrapped in a blanket.” 
This peculiar situation occurred because, during the summer of 1874, 
an “Entomologists’ Camp” was held on Mt. Washington in New 
Hampshire, a “quarter of a mile below the Halfway House and far 
enough into the woods to be out of sight of the road.” The party, 
including members and non-members alike, left Boston by Portland 
steamer, and remained in New Hampshire for almost a month; the 
expenses, including round-trip fare from Boston, were about twenty 
dollars apiece, and provisions, tents, etc., were provided by the Club 
Excursion Committee — Dimmock, Austin and Mann. A regular 
Club meeting was held, although it was “several times disturbed by 
Mr. Morrison’s frantic attempts to capture the moths attracted by 
the sole luminary of the occasion, his own lantern.” But in the main, 
these summer excursions were light-hearted affairs, and when the 
next Mt. Washington announcement, for July, 1875, stated that 
“members may invite the attendance of ladies,” the ten men who 
appeared at the meeting had fourteen women with them. 
In the early years, there was no intention to limit place of meetings, 
which were often held outside the borders of Massachusetts. Nor 
was there distinction made between resident and non-resident mem- 
bers. Both of these policies speedily changed the Club from a local 
organization to one including members from many parts of the coun- 
try. By January, 1879, the secretary reported 47 members residing 
outside of New England, and only 19 within the area, most of them 
in the vicinity of Boston and Cambridge. 
The Beginnings of Psyche 
At the fourth meeting, on April 10, 1874, Samuel Scudder pro- 
posed that the Cambridge Entomological Club should begin publica- 
tion of a monthly journal. A lively and lengthy discussion followed 
this proposal, ending in the decision to undertake such a project. 
The title of this new “Organ of the Cambridge Entomological Club,” 
proposed by Scudder, was to be Psyche , derived from the Greek word 
for butterfly. B. P. Mann was elected as the editor for this new 
publication and “charged with the execution of all but the scientific 
