November, 1943 
The Queensland Naturalist 
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of us can give our usual application to our scientific 
hobbies. At the back of everyone’s mind, suppressed per- 
haps more in some than in others, is the sadness, the horror 
and the anxiety of the war and of its aftermath, though, 
fortunately, we have not in Brisbane felt the direct effects 
of enemy action. 
For this immunity we have to thank the wonderful 
young men and women of the fighting and auxiliary ser- 
vices, both of our own Empire and our allies, w T ho are 
enduring unlimited hardships and dangers to preserve our 
nationhood. Fifteen of our Club members are in full 
time service with the forecs. One of them, Lieutenant 
George Kenneth Jackson, whom we knew as a member 
from his boyhood and who indeed, as a naturalist, grew 
up in the Club, has made the supreme sacrifice. He en- 
listed in the A.I.F. at the outbreak of the war and served 
in the Middle East, being through the siege of Tobruk. 
He returned to fight in.Papua at Milne Bay and had only 
recently got his commission when he was killed in the 
attack on Sanananda. 
Our profound .sympathy goes to his young wife and 
to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Jackson. Their sor- 
row and pride is shared by all members who will miss 
Ken Jackson’s cheerful companionship and will long re- 
member his enthusiasm, energy and venturesomeness, and 
not least his facility for finding aboriginal implements 
where others could see none. His wide interest in, insight 
into, and love for nature showed him to be a natural 
naturalist and we can recall some delightful talks he gave 
on his favourite subject, the Australian aboriginal. Mr. 
Longman, the Director of the Queensland Museum, of the 
stair of which Ken Jackson was a member, has told me 
what a great loss he is to the Museum being so fitted by 
natural bent to that kind of work. 
Our sympathy goes, too, to our former President, Mrs. 
Aubrey Thomson and to Mr. Aubrey Thomson in the loss 
in the war of their son Comrie and their anxiety for their 
son Peter, a prisoner of war. 
Two of our members, Mrs. Williams and Mr. W. D. 
Salkeld, who died during the year, will be greatly missed 
from meetings and excursions. 
Owing to the difficulties of travel and accommodation 
mentioned by our Excursion Secretary, we have been to no 
