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Psyche 
[March 
members were never great enough to give the Club working capital 
to use. Early in 1916 Brues recommended that the length of the 
articles be normally limited to eight pages and that articles of greater 
length should be paid for by the authors, who would also be required 
to bear the cost of the engravings for their illustrations and to pay 
the cost price for their reprints. Although this was approved, for 
many years the financial status of Psyche continued to fluctuate, 
primarily because of the lamentable absence of any substantial en- 
dowment to fall back upon in critical periods. Deficits did occur, 
sometimes amounting to several hundreds of dollars, but various 
members, notably Wheeler, Brues, Johnson, and Thomas Barbour,*' 
made sufficient personal contributions to balance the accounts. Never- 
theless, this was clearly the turning point in the history of Psyche ; 
never again did the journal pass through such a protracted period of 
financial struggle as between 1895 and 1915. The Club members 
had every reason to be pleased at the Annual Meeting of 1919 as 
they heard the report of the acting treasurer, A. C. Kinsey: “At the 
close of a year of increased cost o'f everything it would not have 
been surprising if a financial report for the Club had presented a 
deficit .... Contrary to this, however, the cash balance to date is 
$118.35. This improvement in conditions should be credited in part 
to the increased efforts in collecting money due, but in a larger part 
to the efforts of the editor of Psyche. An adoption of this report 
should include an expression of thanks to the editor for his careful 
management of the cost of publishing the magazine.” 
During the first decade (1908-1918) of meetings at the Bussey, 
the Club was very busy giving a cordial welcome to the many new 
members elected during the period — a total of 92. Many of these 
were graduate students at Harvard and they enlivened the programs 
with accounts of their research and especially of their collecting trips. 
Among these, for example, was W. M. Mann, who, as one of 
Wheeler’s students, collected extensively during his graduate years, 
even in such remote regions as the East Indies and South America. 
He published occasionally on ants after leaving the Bussey but for 
*Dr. Barbour was elected a member of the Club in November, 1909, 
along with Brues, while he was a graduate student at Harvard. A verte- 
brate zoologist, he was soon appointed curator of reptiles and amphibians 
in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and later served as Director of 
the Museum (1927-1946). However, he continued his membership in the 
Club and was very generous in his contributions towards the cost of pub- 
lishing Psyche . 
