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of them beyond New England. Financial problems at the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology, following Agassiz’s death, reduced the 
funds available for assistants. Hagen, though he lived for another 
three years, was stricken with paralysis in 1890 and the February 
meeting of that year was the last he attended. During the period 
from 1890 to 1900, when the meetings were held in Scudder’s study, 
only five resident members were elected to the Club, but four of 
these were to play a most important part in the history of the or- 
ganization. One of them, A. P. Morse, then 28 years of age, was 
an assistant in the zoology department of Wellesley College; later 
he became associated with the Boston Society of Natural History, 
and still later with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, as a 
specialist in Orthoptera. He continued to be active in the Ento- 
mological Club for a total of 43 years, until his health failed in 
19 35 [17]. Another of the new members was F. C. Bowditch, an 
amateur coleopterist with special interests in the Chrysomelidae ; in 
the course of his life he built up an extensive and important collection 
of the Chrysomelidae of the world, now at the Museum of Compara- 
tive Zoology [18]. The third of the members was J. W. Folsom, 
who was active in the Club while he was a graduate student at 
Harvard University. His early interests were in morphology and 
physiology of insects and he later taught entomology at the Univer- 
sity of Illinois before becoming associated with the U.S. Bureau of 
Entomology [19]. The fourth of this group was W. L. W. Field, 
who joined the Club at the age of 19, while he was a first year 
student in Harvard College. He was an enthusiastic lepidopterist 
and published several papers in Psyche on inheritance in butterflies.'* 
He attended meetings of the Club regularly and, as editor of Psyche 
from 1904-1909, was responsible for making significant improvements 
in its nature and content. Field did not continue in entomology, 
professionally, but taught biology at Milton Academy until 1917, 
when he became headmaster, a position that he held until 1942. 
These four members, in addition to Scudder, Henshaw and Roland 
Hayward (an amateur coleopterist who joined the Club in 1879 
[20] ) , were the only individuals that attended the Club meetings 
*At the Club’s meeting in September, 1907, Professor William Bateson of 
Cambridge University, England, was scheduled to be the speaker; last 
minute changes prevented his coming, so W. L. W. Field “gave an inter- 
esting talk on the breeding experiments” that were being conducted by 
Bateson, who has “thus brought to the attention of the world again the 
long-neglected or forgotten Hereditary Laws discovered by Mendel.” 
