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Psyche 
[Dec. 
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Cambridge Ento- 
mological Club. — As this issue of Psyche goes to press, 
plans are being made for a 75th anniversary meeting of 
the Cambridge Entomological Club, on December 20, 1949. 
The Clnb was formed on January 9, 1874, by thirteen 
local entomologists, who met at Dr. Hagen’s house. In 
addition to Hagen the group included Samuel Scudder, 
A. S. Packard, Samuel Henshaw, Edward Burgess, 
George Dimmock, J. H. Emerton, E. Schwarz, E. P. 
Austin, B. P. Mann, J. C. Munro, G. R. Crotch and H. R. 
Morrison. The first scientific communication of that 
evening was a discussion by Dr. Hagen of an amber insect 
from Maryland. At the fourth meeting, on April 10, 
1874, the members voted to publish a monthly journal, 
named Psyche. Five hundred printed copies of the first 
issue were brought to the next meeting, on May 8. With- 
in the next few years many well-known entomologists 
joined the Club, among them being H. R. Grote, Baron 
Osten-Sacken, Samuel Williston, J. L. Leconte, C. V. 
Riley, J. A. Lintner and W. H. Edwards. The Club was 
incorporated on February 9, 1877. Most of the early 
meetings were held at Scudder ’s house, on Brattle St., 
Cambridge. After 1900 the group met at either the 
Boston Society of Natural History building or the Appa- 
lachian Mountain Club rooms. Subsequent to the ap- 
pointment of W. M. Wheeler at Harvard University in 
1910, the meetings have been held at one of the Univer- 
sity’s buildings — the Bussey Institution until 1931, and 
the Biological Laboratories from then until the present 
time. The 75th Anniversary Meeting will be the 647th 
meeting since the formation of the Club. Psyche is now 
in its 56th volume. — F. M. Carpenter. 
