Psyche 
[March 
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It has a Publication Fund, and maintains a monthly journal, Psyche. 
It is believed by many local entomologists that one large club will 
be better than two small ones and that the members of the Harris 
Club will find many advantages in an alliance with the older or- 
ganization. If the plan is carried out, the Cambridge Entomological 
Club will hereafter hold regular meetings in Boston.” 
This was unanimously voted by the Harris Club and at the February 
13 meeting of the Cambridge Club the 38 active members of the 
Harris Club were nominated by Field and Hayward for membership. 
At the next meeting, March 13, all were elected, with only Field, 
Hayward and Bowditch (all amateurs) representing the Cambridge 
Entomological Club, Scudder being unable to take part because of his 
paralysis. 
The change in the number and type of members rapidly led to a 
change in the nature of the Cambridge Entomological Club. The 
concept of a Club library very shortly came under critical examina- 
tion, in part because of Scudder’s illness and of the necessity of mov- 
ing the library from his study. In three months the library com- 
mittee, with Field as chairman, recommended that the Club library 
turn over whatever volumes the Boston Society of Natural History 
desired for its library, and to dispose of the rest among its members 
by auction. Thus, by a series of auctions presided over by H. H. 
Newcomb, most of the library was gradually disposed of at ridicu- 
lously low prices, until in 1909 the remaining works were sold for 
twenty dollars to a new member, W. M. Wheeler. 
At the October meeting, 1903, the members considered the future 
of Psyche, which had been edited since 1891 by Samuel Henshaw.* 
A committee chaired by A. P. Morse, and including Bolster, Field, 
and Henshaw, was appointed to consider whether or not to continue 
its publication. In December, Field reported that “the committee was 
thoroughly in favor of maintaining Psyche as the journal of the Club 
and was ready to assume charge of the journal if that was the pleas- 
ure of the Club.” It was and the editorship was assumed by W. L. 
W. Field; in November, 1906, the Club members discussed the Bib- 
liographic Record, which had been the main part of the journal under 
Mann and Scudder, and decided to discontinue it and to devote the 
space to contributors’ articles. 
Other changes also began to manifest themselves. After 1903 the 
Club began to possess a very local outlook; the attempt to maintain 
a wide non-resident membership appears to have been abandoned. 
The attention of the Cambridge Entomological Club from 1904 to 
