He completed a Ph.D. from the University of London in 1956, published three more volumes of Insects of Hawaii in 1957-58, and prepared one more that languished in the pipeline until 1978.

By the 1970s, however, Zimmie had trouble securing the funds needed to keep working on Insects of Hawaii and ended up accepting a generous offer from Douglas Waterhouse at Australia's CSIRO to turn his attention to producing another ambitious multivolume monograph, this time on Australian Weevils.

Juvik, J. O. (2001) "An Uncommon Dedication," in Insects of Hawaii, vol.

Its first publications included a reprint of The Hawaiian Kingdom by Ralph Kuykendall and Insects of Hawaii, by Elwood C. Zimmerman, both of which have become classics.

Insects of Hawaii.

Insects of Hawaii, vol.