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Ehrhorn, Fullaway, Giffard, Illingworth, Muir, Swezey, Soon, 
and Willard. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 
Mr. Albert H. Soon was elected to active membership in 
the society. 
The committee appointed to draft a resolution showing the 
entomological services of Mr. Albert Koebele to this country, 
submitted the following resolution, together with a memoran- 
dum of Mr. Koebele’s services. 
Upon motion by Mr. Muir, it was unanimously voted to 
accept the committee’s report, and that after the resolution 
had been signed by the president and secretary, that it be for- 
warded to Mr. FE. K. Taylor of Alameda, California, who is 
Mr. Koebele’s attorney. 
Resolution of Appreciation of the Entomological Services of 
Mr. Albert Koebele. 
Whereas, it has come to the notice of the Hawaiian Ento- 
mological Society that Mr. Albert Koebele, septuagenarian 
entomologist, former employe of the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, and agent in co-operation with the California State 
Board of Horticulture, also Superintendent of Entomology for 
the Board of Agriculture and Forestry under the Republic of 
Hawaii and later consulting entomologist for the Territory of 
Hawaii and an honorary member of this society since its 
organization in 1904, also a naturalized American citizen since 
1880, has been and is still detained against his will in Ger- 
many, whither he went previous to the outbreak of the War 
to secure special treatment for tropical fever and a disease of 
the eyes, and at the same time to collect beneficial insects for 
the Territory of Hawaii; and 
Whereas, It is believed that Mr. Koebele merits special 
consideration from the Government of the United States of 
America through its representatives because of the invaluable 
services he has rendered to the country in saving threatened 
agricultural industries in California and Hawaii by his energy 
and skill in entomological field research work and particularly 
in discovering and introducing the natural enemies of certain 
insects which were at that time destroying the principal crops 
