The Cambridge Entomological Club

Founded 1874

New CEC web site in beta!
Give it a look, but please don't link to the beta site as the URLs are temporary. We expect it to go live before the October 11 meeting.

Next meeting: Tuesday, October 11, 2011, at 7:30pm, MCZ 101

Last meeting: Tuesday, May 10th, at 7:15 PM
Piotr Naskrecki
spoke on
Katydids of South Africa: An exploration of a nearly unknown fauna

Please note the meeting will begin earlier than our normal time, and will be held at the Herbaria, not the MCZ.

Piotr Naskrecki has traveled the world investigating invertebrate biodiversity, capturing beautiful images of the natural world and studying katydids. Dr. Naskrecki will address the club to discuss his NSF-funded orthopteroid survey work in South Africa. The talk will include a biogeographical and historical overview of the country's katydid fauna and highlight some of the interesting species radiations that have been uncovered.

Free and open to the public.

Harvard University Herbaria seminar room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138
(Behind the MCZ, at the end of Divinity Avenue) (parking information)

The first 15 minutes will be the Ent Club's brief annual business meeting. Business will include nomination and election of new officers.

We will not meet for dinner beforehand. You may want to join some of us in attending a lecture by Michael Canfield entitled: The Secrets of Field Notes: Capturing Science, Nature, and Exploration. This talk is hosted by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, is held in the Geological Lecture Hall, and begins at 6 PM (more information here).

To receive email announcements, write to entclub-announce-request@entclub.org or sign up using a Google id at groups.google.com.

News:

*Image © 2006 Andrea Golden*

Discussion of open access for journals, journal economics, and the (recently vetoed) bill requiring open access to articles coming out of federally funded research. (2007-11-14)

Bolton's Catalogue of Ants of the World 1758-2005 by Barry Bolton, Gary Alpert, Philip S. Ward, and Piotr Naskrecki has been issued on CD-ROM by Harvard University Press. (flyer, 1-page PDF) (2007-02-05)

Almost all Psyche back issues, from 1874 to 2000, are available online at the Psyche web site. (2007-05-23)

Please visit the CEC group at flickr.com. (2006-07-17)

Psyche is now indexed by Google Scholar. For example, if you enter the search terms "frank carpenter fossil", many Psyche articles turn up.

Harvard's David Lohman has prepared the complete archives of the Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society for online access. (2006-02-20)

History of the Ent Club - Janice R. Mathews 1974, complete article, 35 pages, illustrated, is among the articles available on the Psyche site. 3.7 megabyte PDF file download. (2006-02-25)

Some of the things you can find on this site:

	Images contributed by Gary Alpert (2006-04-19)
	Images from Corrie Saux-Moreau's South America trip (2004-09-24)
	Images contributed by Andrea Golden (2004-03-01)
	From the mailbag: A local sighting of Noctua pronuba (2002-06-19)
	Lantern slides from the CEC archives (2001-10-26)

Mike Huben has contributed his officer nomination poems from 1995 and 1996. (2001-10-26)

Please send additions and corrections to Jonathan Rees <webmaster@entclub.org>.

Last modified: 7 April 2011