John S. Clark

John S. Clark
Born	21 March 1885 Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Died	6 June 1956 (aged 71) Mooroolbark, Victoria
Citizenship	Australian
Nationality	Scottish
Fields	Entomology Myrmecology
Institutions	Western Australia Department of Agriculture Museum Victoria
Known for	Contributions to myrmecology
Spouses	Maggie Forbes (m. 1908; d. 1935) Phyllis Marjorie Claringbull (m. 1939; d. 1943)
Children	6

John S. Clark (21 March 1885 – 1 June 1956) was a Scottish entomologist well known for his study of ants in Western Australia from 1920 until 1956.

Born in Glasgow, Clark first arrived in Australia some time in the late 1910s. On 1 October 1920, he started work with the Western Australia department of agriculture, where he picked up his passion for entomology.

In 1926 he became a full-time entomologist at the National Museum in Melbourne. He spent the rest of his life exploring Australia, during which time he discovered several new species of ant. Ants and other 'economic' insects were his specialty, and he continued working and studying until his death aged 71.

Published works

Over the course of his career, Clark published over 35 entomological papers.^[1] The following publications are found at the Hymenoptera Online Database:^[2]

• Clark, J.S. (1924). "Australian Formicidae" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 9 (2): 72–89.
• Clark, J.S. (1924). "Australian Formicidae" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 10 (12): 75–89.
• Clark, J.S. (1925). "The ants of Victoria. (Part 1.)" (PDF). Victorian Naturalist 42: 58–64.
• Clark, J.S. (1925). "The ants of Victoria. (Part 2.)" (PDF). Victorian Naturalist 42: 135–144. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26621.
• Clark, J.S. (1926). "Australian Formicidae" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 12: 43–52. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26622.
• Clark, J.S. (1927). "The ants of Victoria. [Part III.]" (PDF). Victorian Naturalist 44: 33–40. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26623.
• Clark, J.S. (1928). "Entomological reports. Formicidae. Pages 39–44, in Report of the Victorian Field Naturalists' Expedition through the Western District of Victoria in October, 1927" (PDF). Victorian Naturalist 45: 1–52.
• Clark, J.S. (1928). "Ants from north Queensland" (PDF). Victorian Naturalist 45: 169–171. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26624.
• Clark, J.S. (1928). "Australian Formicidae" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 14 (4): 29–41.
• Clark, J.S. (1929). "Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island. No. III. The ants" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 15: 55–56.
• Clark, J.S. (1929). "Results of a collecting trip to the Cann River, East Gippsland" (PDF). Victorian Naturalist 46: 115–123. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26625.
• Clark, J.S. (1930). "New Formicidae, with notes on some little-known species" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 43 (1): 2–25. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26628.
• Clark, J.S. (1930). "Some new Australian Formicidae" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 42 (11): 116–128. doi:10.5281/zenodo.266268.
• Clark, J.S. (1930). "The Australian ants of the genus Dolichoderus, subgenus Hypoclinea Mayr" (PDF). Australian Zoologist 6 (3): 252–268. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26627.
• Clark, J.S. (1934). "Ants from the Otway Ranges" (PDF). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8: 48–73. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26631.
• Clark, J.S. (1934). "New Australian ants" (PDF). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8: 21–47. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26630.
• Clark, J.S. (1934). "Notes on Australian ants, with descriptions of new species and a new genus" (PDF). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8: 5–20. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26629.
• Clark, J.S. (1936). "A revision of Australian species of Rhytidoponera Mayr (Formicidae)" (PDF). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 9: 14–88. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26632.
• Clark, J.S. (1938). "Reports of the McCoy Society for field investigation and research. No. 2. Sir Joseph Banks Islands. 10. Formicidae" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 50: 356–382. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26633.
• Clark, J.S. (1941). "Notes on the Argentine ant and other exotic ants introduced into Australia". Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 12: 59–70.
• Clark, J.S. (1941). "Australian Formicidae. Notes and new species". Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 12: 71–93. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26634.
• Clark, J.S. (1943). "A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae)" (PDF). Memoirs of The National Museum of Victoria 13: 83–149. ISSN 0083-5986.
• Clark, John (1951). The Formicidae of Australia (Volume 1). Subfamily Myrmeciinae. (PDF). Melbourne, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing. pp. 1–230.

References

1. Upton, M.S. (1993). "Clark, John (1885–1956)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
2. "John Clark". Hymenoptera Online Database. Retrieved 20 November 2015.

• Anthony Musgrave (1932). Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, with biographical notes on authors and collectors, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (Sydney) : viii + 380.