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sessions lie contributed several informative papers, as 
well as exhibited specimens of special interest. lie was 
also a consistent attendant at its field excursions. 
Similarly, in 1907, Illidge associated himself with the 
present Field Naturalists’ Club, Queensland, and served 
for a long period on its Committee. Since 1907, his con- 
nection with the Club, until the last year, had been con- 
tinuous, and he spared no effort to promote its purposes 
by attending and contributing to- the business of its 
evening and field meetings. 
Mr. Illidge again was an active member of the Gould 
League of Bird Lovers, and remained associated with it 
until it was [changed to ‘‘The Nature Lovers’ League” 
— Ed.] and amalgamated with, or absorbed by, the 
Queensland Field Naturalists’ Club. 
He was a member of the Entomological Society, 
Brisbane, and read a special paper at its meeting on 
November 18, 1925, on “Wood Boring Beetles.” 
In November, 1928, Mr. R. Illidge was elected an 
Honorary Associate Member of the Royal Zoological 
Society of New South Wales for “Distinguished Ser- 
vices you have rendered to Australian Zoology.’’ He 
was the first Associate under the article in the Society’s 
constitution relating to Associate Members. 
On October 20, 1928, the Entomological Society of 
Queensland recorded: — “Some time ago the Constitu- 
tion of the Society was amended to allow for the elec- 
tion of a limited number of Honorary Members, and Mr. 
R. Illidge was the first elected as such ‘in recognition of 
his outstanding services to entomological science in 
Queensland.’ ” 
Rowland Illidge cherished no other feelings towards 
those — whether young or old — whose predilections for 
Natural History brought them into contact with him than 
ones dictated by noteworthy generosity, with all that 
it implies. The knowledge he secured was ever at the 
disposal of others, and to them it was freely dispensed. 
One family of naturalists, living in the Central District 
— father and mother, daughter and sons, two of whose 
members have predeceased him— once and for all, there- 
fore, justly held him in the greatest regard. So also 
generally his ornithologist and entomologist contempor- 
aries, and those to whom the poetry of Nature is an 
appeal. Many young men who were fortunate to have 
come under his notice have thus too alike profited. The 
eldest living of his former associates, R. J. Sankey 
(“Jim”), referring to the early seventies of the last 
