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new building, first named the Biological Institute but later termed 
the Biological Laboratories, was to be ready for occupancy in 1931. 
Impatient to become established in Cambridge, Professor Wheeler 
moved to temporary quarters in the Museum of Comparative Zoology 
in 1929, bringing with him the rest of the entomological staff and 
their graduate students. At the October meeting, 1929, the members 
of the Club voted to hold future meetings in Cambridge and left it 
to the executive commitee to find appropriate quarters for the gather- 
ing. Since the privilege of smoking was apparently a requirement, 
satisfactory housing was found in the basement of the Peabody Mu- 
seum, adjoining the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Accordingly, 
on November 12, 1929, with President Carpenter in the chair, the 
Club met again in Cambridge. As the secretary of the Club, R. P. 
Dow, recorded in the minutes: “This was the first meeting of the 
Club in Cambridge since March, 1903, when the entire Harris Club 
was elected to membership.” For the next two years the Club met 
in the Peabody Museum, in an exotic-looking room, decorated with 
examples of ancient Indian cultures, until the Biological Institute 
was completed. On October 13, 1931, the 498th meeting of the 
Club was held in room B-455 of the Biological Institute, with Presi- 
dent C. A. Frost in the chair. Since that time, except for a short 
interval during World War II, the Club has met in that room, 
over a period of 43 years, and the formal address of the building, 16 
Divinity Avenue, has been the official address of the Club. 
Two months later, December, 1931, a most unusual meeting was 
held — the 500th meeting, which apparently holds the record for 
Explanation of Photograph on Opposite Page 
Some members of the Cambridge Entomological Club in 1929. Front row 
(left to right), Charles W. Johnson, Curator at Boston Society of Natural 
History; Nathan Banks, Curator of Insects, Museum of Comparative Zool- 
ogy; Elizabeth Bryant, Assistant Curator of Insects, M.C.Z. ; J. C. Bequaert, 
then Associate Curator, later Curator of Insects, M.C.Z. Back row (left 
to right) : Albert P. Morse, Curator of Natural History, at Peabody Museum, 
Salem; Arthur Loveridge, then Assistant Curator of Herpetology, M.C.Z., 
and collector of African insects; Charles T. Brues, Associate Curator of 
Insects, M.C.Z., and later Professor of Entomology at Harvard; E. T. 
Learned, Boston physician and lepidopterist ; Samuel E. Cassino, Salem 
publisher (Naturalists’ Directory), engraver, and lepidopterist; Frank M. 
Carpenter, then postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and president of the 
Cambridge Entomological Club. The photograph was taken in one of the 
entomological rooms in the M.C.Z. [Original in archives of Cambridge 
Entomological Club.] 
