About the Cambridge Entomological Club

The Cambridge Entomological Club was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 9 January 1874. It is the third oldest entomological society in North America (after the Entomological Society of Pennsylvania, 1842, and the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 1859, which was renamed the American Entomological Society in 1861). The club currently has about 20 members whose dues are paid, and meeting announcements are sent to about 180 email addresses.

The Club published Psyche: A Journal of Entomology regularly from the year of its founding until 1995, with one additional issue in 2000. The journal was relaunched by Hindawi Publishing in January 2008.

The officers for 2009-2010 were:

President Maria Aliberti Lubertazzi
David Hughes

Vice-president Ansel Payne

Secretary Andrea Golden

Treasurer Jonathan Rees

Executive Committee Gary Alpert
Paul Plekavich
Scott Smyers

Constitution and by-laws (1971 version)

Past officers

The club's seal

History of the Club

Janice R. Matthews. History of the Cambridge Entomological Club. Psyche 81:3-37, 1974.

Images from lantern slides (about 550k bytes)

Officer nomination poems from 1995 and 1996

About the web site

The web site was initiated by Jonathan Rees in spring of 2001. On 13 November 2001, the members voted to have the site "launched". Here is the memo to members regarding the site.

The webmaster is responsible for placing material on the site and writing pages as needed, so any errors or misrepresentations are his responsibility, not those of the club.

Web site hosting is provided by mumble.net. Hosting for Psyche is provided by MIT CSAIL.

Last modified: 22 January 2008