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Psyche 
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Seal of the Cambridge Entomological Club, designed by A. P. Morse and 
adopted by the Club in January, 1922. The White Mountain Butterfly 
( Oeneis melissa semidea) is shown resting on rock-fragments, with Mt. 
Washington and the rest of the presidential range (New Hampshire) in 
the background. 
and, having no funds set aside for this, had to solicit for the deficit 
from its members. For this reason, the lecture series was discontinued 
and never revived. 
At the very same meeting at which the Club made the decision to 
hold their first public lecture series, they also (upon the motion of 
Dr. Wheeler) appointed a committee to look for a design for a Club 
seal. Emerton, Wheeler, and Morse were appointed, and for the next 
two years they examined and exhibited at meetings the numerous 
designs submitted by members. Finally, at the Annual Meeting, 
January, 1922, the committee recommended a design by A. P. Morse, 
showing the White Mountain Butterfly (then known as Oeneis semi- 
dea) , “perched characteristically on the dark grey, deeply weather- 
bitten rock-fragments of its mountain home, whose tints and texture 
its own so closely resemble, that when lying on its side with wings 
closed to escape the wind it becomes almost invisible. Beyond it at 
the right is suggested the sedgy slope of ‘Semidea plateau’ (so chris- 
tened by Scudder) with its rock-rivulets in whose crannies the but- 
