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Matthews - — Cambridge Entomological Club 
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Samuel Scudder’s study in the yard of his house, 156 Brattle St., Cam- 
bridge. Consisting of a single large room, it included an extensive cabinet 
of insect drawers on one wall, a fireplace, and book shelves on two walls. 
The Cambridge Entomological Club held virtually all of its meetings here 
from 1888-1901. [Photograph, probably taken about 1890, in M.C.Z. archives.] 
elected to membership, even some as officers of the Club, presumably 
as a means of increasing subscriptions to Psyche. One of the major 
interests of the members at this time, apart from Psyche , was the 
Club Library, the goal being to have in one place as nearly complete 
a collection of entomological publications as possible for the use of 
the members. This is not surprising, since both Scudder and Mann 
were bibliophiles. At first the secretary of the Club had the respon- 
sibility of recording all these accessions but in 1880 a librarian was 
elected. By 1886 the Club library included 1652 volumes and sepa- 
rates, which were at first housed in Mann’s office but later transferred 
to Scudder’s study. 
The Lean Years 
By 1890 the membership of the Club had changed greatly. Mann 
had left Cambridge permanently in 1887 to do bibliographic work 
for the Federal Department of Agriculture; and several other of 
the original members, including Austin, Dimmock, Morrison, Pack- 
ard and Schwarz, had moved away from the Cambridge area, most 
