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entomological instruction to undergraduates. The program was not 
very successful, however, and in 1907 the Bussey Institution was 
reorganized for graduate study and research in biology, including 
entomology. In 1908 William Morton Wheeler, a distinguished 
zoologist and entomologist, then curator of invertebrate zoology at 
the American Museum of Natural History, was appointed Professor 
of Economic Entomology at the Bussey Institution [21]. On his 
arrival he was elected to the Club and personally welcomed by 
President C. W. Johnson.* 
In the following year Charles T. Brues was added to the Bussey 
Staff as Instructor in Entomology; and in November the Club gained 
by his election another member who would have an immediate and 
lasting influence on its future [23]. At the very next meeting, Presi- 
dent Bolster reported the resignation of Field as editor of Psyche. 
“Mr. Brues, being called upon by the chair, said he would try to 
arrange things so that he could take up the work,” thus beginning his 
distinguished term as editor, which would span the next 37 years. 
The membership of Wheeler, Brues, and their graduate students 
served to draw the Cambridge Entomological Club closer to the 
Bussey Institution, not only intellectually but physically as well. 
Meetings during the post- Harris Club period had been held at various 
addresses around Boston: in the council room at the Boston Society 
of Natural History; at Emerton’s room, Clarendon Street; at the 
Appalachian Mountain Club, Tremont Building; and at Newcomb’s 
office, Court Street. At the February meeting, 1910, newly elected 
president Wheeler reported that certain rooms at the Bussey were 
being remodeled and he expressed his hope that future meetings of the 
Club might be held there. The suggestion was enthusiastically ac- 
cepted and the members voted to hold the next meeting at the Bussey 
Institution, in Boston. That was the place of meeting for the follow- 
ing 19 years. 
At this time a task of primary importance facing the Club and 
especially the new editor, C. T. Brues, was that of putting Psyche 
on a satisfactory financial basis; despite change in format, expenses 
continued to exceed subscription income and the contributions from 
*C. W. Johnson became a member of the Club in 1903, shortly after the 
election of the Harris Club members, when he arrived in Boston to be 
curator at the Boston Society of Natural History, as a specialist in Diptera. 
A genial personality, with youthful and vigorous enthusiasm, he was a 
true naturalist and helpful to all who consulted him. He was active in the 
Club until his death in 1932 [22]. 
