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Psyche 
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BENJAMIN PICKMAN MANN 
Benjamin Pickman Mann, one of the founders of the Cam- 
bridge Entomological Club and its first secretary and editor of 
its journal “Psyche”, died March 22, 1926. He was born April 
30, 1848, the son of Horace Mann, well known as a teacher and 
advocate of public schools. He graduated from Harvard College 
in 1870 and for several years lived in Cambridge, where meetings 
of the Entomological Club were held at his residence in 1874. 
In 1881 he entered the Entomological Bureau of the U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture at Washington and in 1887 became an 
examiner in the U. S. Patent Office. He was specially interested 
in entomological literature and bibliography, and while editor 
of Psyche, a record of entomological publications occupied a 
large part of the journal. While in Washington he took part in 
many organizations for social and public work. He was one of 
the Childrens’ Guardians of the City, trustee of a church, member 
of the Single Tax Association and of the Esperanto Associo. 
