page_title: Alfred Jefferis Turner
section_title: Entomological activity
hierarchical_section_title: Alfred Jefferis Turner / Entomological activity
caption_attribution_description: English: Doctor Alfred Jefferis Turner collecting butterflies in the Bunya Mountains
context_page_description: Alfred Jefferis Turner was a pediatrician and noted amateur entomologist. He was the son of missionary Frederick Storrs-Turner. He introduced the use of diphtheria antitoxin to Australia in 1895. He was known by the nickname "Gentle Annie".
  Doctor Turner was a resident of Dauphin Terrace, Highgate Hill, Brisbane.
  The Jefferis Turner Centre for mothercraft was opened in 1952 as part of the Queensland Government's Maternal and Child Welfare program. In 1986, its role was changed to provide short term respite care for intellectually disabled children. It is located in the heritage building Fairy Knoll in Ipswich.
context_section_description: In addition to his medical career, Turner was a noted amateur entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. He left a collection of over 50,000 moths to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Canberra.
caption: Alfred Jefferis Turner in the Bunya mountains on an entomological excursion, 1925
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