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most of his life he was Director of the National Zoological Park and 
had little time for entomological studies [24]. Another student, 
James W. Chapman, was also a myrmecologist ; in 1916, after grad- 
uating from the Bussey, he joined the staff of Silliman University, 
on the Island of Negros, Philippines, where he and Mrs. Chapman 
remained until the Japanese occupation in World War II [25]. 
A few of the Harvard faculty joined the Club and were active 
throughout this period, notably Nathan Banks, Curator of Insects 
at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and G. H. Parker, Pro- 
fessor of Zoology at Harvard and for many years chairman of that 
Department. During this time also the Club included among its 
members a substantial number of enthusiastic amateurs, who took an 
active and important part in the meetings. P. G. Bolster, a prac- 
ticing attorney, was a very effective collector, mostly of Coleoptera; 
he was president of the Club twice during this period, in 1909 and 
1913 [26].'* Another amateur active at this time was L. W. Swett, 
a proprietor of a store in Lexington; he built up a very large and 
useful collection of geometrid moths, now housed in the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology, and he was president of the Club in 19 11 
[27]. One of the most active of all Club members at this time was 
C. A. Frost, a civil engineer in Framingham. He was almost “the 
last of the old-time general students of Coleoptera and was most 
helpful to other coleopterists” [28] ; he published about eighty papers, 
many of them in Psyche, and at various times served the Club as 
secretary and treasurer, and twice as president. 
Among the newest elements in the Club membership in this decade 
were eight of the entomologists employed at the Gypsy Moth Parasite 
Laboratory of the Federal Bureau of Entomology, in Melrose High- 
lands. Included was the head of the control program for the Gipsy 
moth, A. F. Burgess, president of the Club in 1916. 
As might be expected, the meetings were well attended, with an 
average attendance of about twenty. The programs were varied but 
usually included a main speaker and two or three shorter presenta- 
tions. The meeting of June 17, 1919, might well serve as an example 
of one of this period, as well as of the decade to follow. The main 
feature of the evening was an address by A. C. Kinsey, a graduate 
student, on the origin of some biological characteristics of gall wasps. 
*In 1909 Bolster prepared a manuscript on the history of the Club, the 
substance of which was read to the members on his retirement from the 
presidency in 1909. This was never published but is included in the ar- 
chives of the Club. 
