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. The original officers of the group included the prominent British entomologist, ornithologist, 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).[1] The society publishes the Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society.