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its President in 1918. He was Honorary Secretary of that Society 

 from 1920 to 1923, appointed a Trustee in 1922, and was Honorary 

 Librarian from 1924 to 1925. In 1934, he was elected Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the Zoological Section of the Australian and New Zealand 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. From an early date, 

 he had been a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London. In 

 1927, he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Zoological 

 Society of London. 



It is to be expected that one who had led such an active life 

 would have travelled far. In 1908, he accompanied the Royal 

 Australian Ornithological Union's expedition to Bass Strait — in 

 1909, he again visited the Bass Strait Islands; in 1913, he journey- 

 ed with Dr. MacGillivray and his son to Lloyd Bay, Queensland, 

 to examine the Barrier Reef; in 1911, he investigated the life 

 habits of the Platypus in the Hopkins River, Victoria; and, in 

 1921, visited, with J. G. Davidson, Ooldea in Western Australia, 

 where his interests were ethnology and general zoology. 



Although James Kershaw was habitually kind and urbane, he 

 could be, when occasion demanded, strong and forceful. Those 

 who worked with him esteemed him for his sincerity and single- 

 ness of purpose ; the advancement of science was always his aim, 

 and he subserved personal ambition to achieve it. Truth was the 

 watchword throughout his simple life — he stood and fought for 

 his convictions. 



— R. A. K. 



