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Psyche 
[March 
The Centennial of the Founding of the Club 
At the May meeting, 1973, the Club voted that the officers for 
I 973 _ 74 (including the elected members of the Executive Committee 
and the members of the Editorial Board of Psyche) constitute a 
Centennial Committee, with authority to make arrangements for 
appropriate recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Club. In 
October President Holldobler reported for the Committee that the 
centennial celebration was planned for April 8 and 9, 1974. Pro- 
fessor Thomas Eisner of Cornell University, a member of the Club 
since 1950, would present a public lecture on the first day, on a 
topic of general interest. The entomological and arachnological sec- 
tions of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the Museum 
Laboratories would hold open-house on the afternoon of the second 
day, followed by a dinner and the Centennial Meeting at the 
Harvard Faculty Club. The March issue of Psyche was to be the 
Centennial Issue and would include an article on the history of 
the Club. 
These plans were effectively carried out. Dr. Eisner’s lecture, 
entitled On Insects and How They Live as Chemists , was given to 
a capacity audience in the main lecture room of the Biological 
Laboratories. At the open-house on Tuesday, the new entomological 
facilities and equipment in the Museum Laboratories were demon- 
strated by Professors Holldobler, Wilson and Levi, and the insect 
collections at the Museum were shown by Dr. John Lawrence. 
Photographs and documents from the Club’s archives were on display. 
The dinner at the Faculty Club was attended by fifty members 
and guests; among the guests were Dr. Miriam Rothschild of 
England and Dr. Clark A. Elliott of the Harvard University 
Archives. Following the dinner, Professor F. M. Carpenter spoke 
on the subject, Aspects of the History of the Cambridge Entomologi- 
cal Club — Somewhat Anecdotal. He discussed the general status 
of entomology and related fields of biology when the Club was begun, 
with examples from the Club’s records, and reviewed the achieve- 
ments of the thirteen men who founded the Club. In the course of 
the past century about 800 individuals have been members of the 
society. With a current membership of slightly more than a hundred 
members, mostly local, the Club continues to be vigorous and active. 
Psyche J with an accumulated pagination of about 20,000 in its eighty 
volumes, now has some five hundred individuals and institutions on 
its subscription list. In his final remarks, Professor Carpenter em- 
