Labour Australia

22 August, 1908
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

25 September, 1991 (aged 83)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• fitter and turner (1927-1935) Victoria, Australia
• railways employee (1927-1948) Victoria, Australia
• natural history collector (1935-1948) Victoria, Australia
• toolmaker (1935-1948) Victoria, Australia
• museum curator (1948-1973) Queensland, Australia
• natural history collector (1948-1989) Queensland, Australia
• anthropologist (1965-1980) Queensland, Australia

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1985)
• Queensland Museum Medal (recipient, 1988)

• Stan Colliver memorial lecture (Royal Society of Queensland)

• Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (founding member)
• Great Barrier Reef Committee (member)
• Royal Society of Queensland (member)
• Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (honorary secretary, 1931-1946)
• Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (president, 1946-1947)
• Anthropological Society of Queensland (founding member, 1948)
• Queensland Naturalists' Club (member, 1948)
• Queensland Naturalists' Club (president, 1952-1952)
• Museum Society of Queensland (member, 1971)

• Dept of Railways (Vic) (fitter and turner, ?-1948)
• H. B. Selby & Co
• University of Queensland (geology) (museum curator, 1948)