Nov., 1928 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
93 
THE LATE MR. W. R. COLLEDGE. 
By the death of William Robert Colledge on the 
26th August, at the ripe age of 87 years, the Queensland 
Naturalists’ Club has lost one of its keenest and ablest 
supporters. Mr. Colledge was born in the north of Eng- 
land, but had resided in Queensland the greater part of 
his life. In official life he was manager of the Brisbane 
Associated Friendly Societies’ Dispensaries. He was 
intensely religious, a great supporter of the Methodist 
Church, and in his younger days used to do a great deal 
of lay preaching in the Brisbane and country churches. 
Mr. Colledge was one of the older type of naturalists 
interested in nature in a broad way, and to the study of 
natural history most of his leisure time was devoted. He 
was generally interested in microscopy more, specially in 
rotifers and other forms of pond-life, and in the life his- 
tory of mosquitoes. On these subjects he was a well 
known authority, and published numerous papers In the 
“Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,” and 
in a more popular way in the “Queensland Naturalist.” 
Practically from its inception till within a few years 
of his death he was an ardent supporter of the Queens- 
land Naturalists’ Club, and rarely missed a meeting or 
excursion. His method of work was, after an excursion, 
to examine the material found and afterwards to fix t 
mount, photograph, and make lantern slides of the more 
interesting captures. It was always his aim to have a 
few fresh slides for every meeting. A number of his 
negatives have been handed over to the club as well as a 
set of his lantern slides, and it is hoped to be able to use 
these for Club work in the future. 
A list of his writings in chronological order is given 
herewith : — 
1900. “Observations on the Life History of the Common 
Mosquito’’; Proc. Roy. Soc. Q’land, Vcl. XV., pp. 
111-131. 
1901. “Notes on a Malaria-Carrying Mosquito (Anopheles 
pictus)”; Proc. Roy. Soc. Q’land, Vol. XVI., pp. 
45-59. 
1902. “Notes on a Species of Sandfly”; Proc. Roy. Soc. 
Q’land, Vol. XVII., pp. 17-24. 
1904. “Notes on the ‘Scots Gray’ Mosquito”; Proc Roy. Soc. 
Q’land, Vol. XVIII., pp. 67-80. 
1907. “Notes on an Apparently New Species of Hyaline 
Daphnia”; Proc. Roy. Soc. Q’land, Vol. XX., pp. 
53-60. 
