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Psyche 
[March 
Record was clearly Hagen’s Bibliotheca entomologica, which ap- 
peared in two volumes in 1862 and 1863. 
The position of Psyche in the history of the Cambridge Entomo- 
logical Club was to be a paradoxical one, for while it brought the 
Club into a position of national renown, at the same time it led to 
financial problems. Accordingly, early in 1876, the Club voted to 
establish annual dues of $2 for New England members and also 
designated a committee to raise a publication fund for Psyche , “the 
principal of the fund to be invested in trust securities” and the 
income to be used for the publications of the Club. A year later, 
January 12, 1877, there being no financial improvement and nothing 
in the publication fund, it was decided that additional measures 
should be “taken to increase the effectiveness of the work of the 
Club and to obtain money to defray the expenses of the Club and of 
the publication of Psyche ” Scudder’s proposal, which was adopted, 
was that “an act of incorporation should be performed” and he ad- 
vised the adoption by the Club of a Constitution and By-laws, “which 
must be in force as a preliminary to the act of incorporation.” The 
Constitution and By-laws were promptly approved. At the following 
meeting, February 9, 1877, with a Justice of the Peace for Middle- 
sex County in attendance, Scudder was elected President and Mann 
was elected Secretary and Treasurer, and these officers and the mem- 
bers of the executive committee signed the agreement of association. 
The Secretary of the Commonwealth, Henry B. Pierce, formally 
signed the Certificate of Incorporation on March 9, 1877.* 
At the time of incorporation of the Club there were 48 members, 
half of the number being resident in the Boston-Cambridge area. 
The meetings were well attended, with an average of 1 1 members in 
addition to a few guests, and they were active affairs, having lively 
discussions. Most meetings were held at various members’ residences, 
though some were held at an office that Scudder used for editing his 
journal, Science . Many additional non-resident entomologists were 
*The Corporation was established according to the provisions of Chapter 
375 of the Acts of the General Court of Massachusetts, passed in the same 
year as the founding of the Club, 1874. The incorporation apparently had 
no effect on the Club. No annual reports of the financial holdings of the 
Club were ever submitted to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, as re- 
quired by law, and on March 24, 1964, eighty-seven years later, the Secre- 
tary of the Commonwealth dissolved the Corporation, in accordance with 
Chapter 180, section 26A, of the General Laws. Revival of the Corporation 
is, however, provided for in the legislative actions — Editor 
