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Matthews — Cambridge Entomological Club 
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CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. 
Regular meeting of the Club Friday, 14 Dec. 1883, at 7.45 p. m. 
Mrs. A. K. Dimmock will show a collection of insects from Betula alba (the 
white birch). 
Mr. G. Dimmock will describe a new mode of making preparations to show 
the double nature of the wing-membrane of insects, and will show some micro- 
scopical preparations of other parts of insects. 
The meeting will be held at the Secretary’s house, 54 Sacramento 
street, Cambridge. [The Porters station horse cars of the Charles 
river road, or the North avenue or Arlington cars of the Cambridge 
road, pass Sacramento street.] 
| "gp* Annual election of officers at the meeting of 11 Jan. 1881. 
George Dimmock, Secretary. 
Notice of the Club meeting for December 14, 1883, to be held at Dimmock’s 
house on Sacramento St., with information about horse car transportation. 
1909 seemed to focus almost totally upon its biggest project, the 
annual exhibitions of insect collections held in the late fall at the 
Appalachian Mountain Club, 1050 Tremont Building, Boston, and 
open to the general public. Several times, the announced topics for 
regular meetings were totally ignored, the entire program being de- 
voted to the arrangements of exhibits and informal conversation. 
Often, nearly every other member had a box of specimens with him, 
mainly Lepidoptera, and during this period, members regularly ex- 
hibited entomological curiosities at the meetings as well. 1 ** 
The Bussey Institution 
In 1907 another event occurred which had great significance for 
the Cambridge Entomological Club. As far back as 1871, a few 
years before the Club was founded, Harvard College had established 
the Bussey Institution, located in Boston, as a place for courses in 
“practical agriculture,” and for some years after that time offered 
*Henshaw not only edited these volumes with great care but he personally 
covered all deficits resulting from their publication. At the meeting of 
March 8, 1901, the Club elected Henshaw a Life-Member, “as a token of 
the Club’s appreciation of his generosity.” 
**This is the origin of the tradition, still maintained, that notices of the 
meetings should include the statement: “Members are invited to bring speci- 
mens to the meeting for demonstration and discussion.” 
