 Clark died at his <unk> home on 1 June 1956 , at the age of 71 . American entomologist William Brown Jr. notes that Clark was living the life of a " recluse " during his declining years . Survived by six children , Clark was buried in Burwood Cemetery . At the time of his death , the majority of his ant collection were housed in the National Museum of Victoria , the Natural History Museum in London and the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge . One of Clark 's daughters , Ellen Clark , was a renowned naturalist . She had worked with her father at the museum in 1940 and was the secretary of the virus department of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research . As well as that , she worked for the Argus and Australasian and published papers on influenza virus research and crustaceans . 
