2 PUOCKKDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 



the Brisbane Courier for the 18th March, 1922, and from this 

 some of the above facts have been taken. 



Robert Logan Jack, LL.D., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., who died 

 in Sydney in November, 1921, Avas born at Irvine, Ayrshire, 

 .Scotland, (m the 16th September, 1845, and was educated at 

 the IrA'ine Academy and Edinburgh Uni-.-ersity. For some 

 years he was attached to the Geologic^al Survey ^i Scotland 

 and also conducted geological work on the Continent. In 1877 

 he was appointed Government Geologist for Northern Queens- 

 land in succession to Richard Daintree, and was soon afterwards 

 appointed Chief Government Geologist for Queensland. While 

 holding office he conducted much exploratory work, and pub- 

 lished a number of original contributions to our knoA\'ledge of 

 the geology of the State. In 1893, in collaboration with 

 R. Etheridge. junr., he brought out the well-known " Geology 

 and Palseontolog}^ of Queensland and New Guinea." In 1898 

 he Avas appointed Commissioner for Queensland to the Earl's 

 Court Exhibition, London, and while there received an offer 

 from an English company operating in the East which caused 

 him to resign his position as Government Geologist of Qimens- 

 land. Operations in the East ceasing OAving to the Boxer 

 outbreak, he returned to England, where he started private 

 practice as a consulting geologist and mineralogist. He 

 returned to Australia in 1904, and was for some years engaged 

 m private practice in West Australia, afterwards coming to 

 Sydney. For some years before his death he was engaged on a 

 study of the history of exploration in Northern Australia, and 

 the two-volume work " Northernmost Australia" is the result. 



John Shirley, D.Sc, F.M.S., a past-president, hon. 

 secretary, and for some years before his death the very efficient 

 hon. treasurer of this Society, who died in Brisbane on tht^ 5th 

 March, 1922, was bom at Dorchester, England, on the 11th 

 August, 1849. With the passing of Dr. S^iirley Queensland 

 has lost t)ne of its most brilliant educationalists and the Royal 

 Society and also the Australasian Association one of their most 

 zealous officers. Dr. Shirley began official life as a pupil teacher, 

 being trained in the Curzon -street National School, Derby, 

 England, and subsequently entered as a student of the Saltley 

 Training College, where he remained till 1869. 



After completing his course in the training college he was 

 employed for a period of eight years in Bishop Ryder's Boys' 

 School, Birmingham, and whilst at that school graduated as 

 B.Sc. of the London University. He arrived in Queensland in 



