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Psyche 
[December 
500TH MEETING OF THE CAMBRIDGE 
ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB 
In celebration of the 500th regular meeting of the Cam- 
bridge Entomological Club a combined dinner and meeting 
was held on Tuesday, December 15th, at the Faculty Club 
of Harvard University. Following an excellent dinner, in 
which thirty persons participated, the toastmaster of the 
evening, W. L. W. Field, opened the proceedings by reading 
from the minutes of the first meeting in 1874. Professor 
Nathan Banks was the first of the after-dinner speakers, 
and spoke of the need of specialization and the furtherance 
of systematic entomology. Vice-President C. W. Collins, who 
was in charge of the meeting, brought the felicitations of 
the Bureau of Entomology, and traced the development of 
economic entomology during the existence of the club. Pro- 
fessor C. T. Brues gave a delightfully humorous talk on 
some of the peculiar and amusing incidents encountered 
in connection with his office as editor of “Psyche.” Mr. C. 
W. Johnson sketched the course of the club since its in- 
ception in 1874 as an offspring of the Boston Society of 
Natural History to the present; he also bore the congratula- 
tions of the parent organization and its thanks for the coop- 
eration of the members of the Cambridge Entomological 
Club in contributing materially to the establishment of the 
extensive and representative collection of New England in- 
sects in the Boston Museum of Natural History. Professor 
A. P. Morse reminisced on the earlier days of the club, giv- 
ing intimate glimpses of meetings at the home of Samuel 
Scudder. 
Following the after-dinner speeches, an interesting mo- 
tion picture film illustrating the life history of the yellow- 
fever mosquito was shown. 
