May Talk and Elections

[Lubertazzi]

To all Cambridge Entomological Club members and entomology
enthusiasts,

The next meeting of the CEC will be held on Tuesday May 10th at 7:15
PM in the Harvard University Herbarium seminar room. Our business
meeting will include nominations and an election of new officers,
which will be followed by our speaker. Piotr Naskrecki will present a
talk entitled "Katydids of South Africa: An exploration of a nearly
unknown fauna."

Piotr Naskrecki (http://www.insectphotography.com/) 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.

This will be a bit of an unusual meeting night. We will begin our
meeting at 7:15 to allow time for nominating and electing our new club
officers. Our meeting will be held in the Harvard University Herbarium
(information about the meeting location is found here -
http://www.huh.harvard.edu/visiting/), which is not far from our
normal meeting room in the MCZ. There is no pre-meeting dinner this
month. In lieu of dinner CEC members may be interested 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 (http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/
lectures_and_special_events/index.php).

Please feel free distribute this announcement to other individuals or
groups that you feel would be interested in this talk or in the
Cambridge Entomological Club.

David Lubertazzi
CEC President