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of pages devoted to insects was greater than the number devoted to 
spiders.” 
In March of 1965 the meeting commemorated the hundredth an- 
niversary of Professor W. M. Wheeler’s birth. Miss Adeline 
Wheeler, his daughter, attended the meeting and made available an 
exhibit of some of his original drawings. A complete set of his 
publications was also shown and several members discussed his con- 
tributions to the study of social insects. Three of the members 
present, Dr. F. M. Carpenter, Dr. E. O. Wilson and Robert W. 
Taylor (president of the Club), represented three successive genera- 
tions of ant students that began with Professor Wheeler. 
The story of Psyche since 1950 has been one of slow but steady 
growth with respect to both its size and the number of subscribers. 
With the retirement of Professor Brues as editor in 1947, the Club 
elected as the new editor Frank M. Carpenter, who had been asso- 
ciate editor of Psyche since 1928. The journal now has the largest 
number of subscribers in the Club’s history; 115 of these are Club 
members, the rest being libraries or other institutions. The policy 
approved by the Club in 1916, i.e., requiring payment by authors for 
at least partial cost of printing of their articles, has prevented the 
occurrence of the deficits that plagued the journal in its earlier years. 
The more general acceptance o'f this policy by educational and other 
institutions, including the federal government, has allowed the publi- 
cation in Psyche of more articles than would otherwise have been 
possible. In the past twenty years the average number of pages per 
volume has increased from 130 to 370. 
The back issues of Psyche , now comprising 80 volumes, have 
created a storage problem. In 1930, when the editorial office moved 
to Cambridge, they were stored in the attic of the Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology. In 1964 space needs of the Museum staff neces- 
sitated the removal of the volumes and on April 14, 1964, the Club 
voted approval of a contract for the storage of the back issues with 
the Johnson Reprint Corporation in New York, which also was 
authorized to serve as the Club’s agent in selling the back issues. In 
1972, however, as a result o'f a generally depressed economic situa- 
tion, the Reprint Corporation asked that the contract be terminated 
and that the volumes be disposed of in some way. Fortunately, very 
satisfactory space for them was found in the basement of the Mu- 
seum, along with its own publications, and early in 1973 the back 
volumes, weighing some 6,000 pounds, were returned to Cambridge 
and deposited in the Museum. 
