The Hawaiian Entomological Society was formed in early 1900 and first convened on January 26, 1905 in the Board Room of the Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry in
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island o ...
. The original officers of the group included the prominent British
entomologist
Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...
,
ornithologist
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...
, and naturalist
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins (President),
Alexander Craw (Vice President), Jacob Kotinsky (Secretary-Treasurer), Otto H. Swezey, (Executive Committee Member & Editor), D.L. Van Dine (Executive Committee), and G.W. Kirkaldy (Editor). The society publishes the ''Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society''.
Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society
The ''Proceedings from the Hawaiian Entomological Society'' is an academic journal published by the Hawaiian Entomological Society and stored in the
ScholarSpace digital institutional repository of the
University of Hawaii at Manoa library. The journal contains hundreds of manuscripts that describe entomological, or insect, research and observations in Hawaii and the Pacific. The first issue was published in 1906.
Proceedings from the Hawaiian Entomological Society. ScholarSpace. Accessed January 3, 2009.
References
External links
Hawaiian Entomological Society
official website
Proceedings from the Hawaiian Entomological Society on ScholarSpace
Environmental organizations based in Hawaii
Entomological societies
Environmental organizations established in 1905
1905 establishments in Hawaii
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