X Obituary. 



Glancing over his ))aper,s, it is apparent that his writings were largely 

 modelled on those of his distinguished predecessor. Captain Hutton. It 

 was indeed fortunate that the work of the one should have succeeded that 

 of the other without the intervention of what the geologists describe 

 as an unconformity. Perhaps at no time did Suter quite realize the 

 undiscovered residue of the fauna on which he worked. In his various 

 reviews and revisions and supplements he wrote as if he had in hand if 

 not all at least almost all the species of the area under examination. 



Patience, perseverance, and concentration, rather than any great breadth 

 of view, were his characteristics. His magnum opus, the Manual of ihe 

 Nev^ Zealand MoUnsca* was approached by a whole quarter-century of 

 study and labour. 



It was the late Mr. .Vugustus Hamilton who planned the Manual, and 

 obtained from the Government the means for its production. 



A com])etent critic wrotef of this magnificent volume that it made an 

 extraordinary advance in Antipodean conchology. The nomenclature of 

 the subject was raised to a modern standard, so that by its guidance any 

 one can now correctly name the shells of New Zealand. Suter needs no 

 other eulogy than his Manual. 



After the Manual was completed he was engaged l)y the Geological 

 Survev to describe collections of Tertiary Mollusca gathered by the 

 Department. Gn this he was busy for the remainder of his life, and the 

 results are embodied in three Palaeonfological Bulletins of the Geological 

 Survey. 



After a l)rief illness Henry Suter passed away at his home in Christ- 

 church on the 30th July, 1918. 



Charles Hedley. 



♦Published in 1913-15. 



'\Journ. of Conch., vol. 14. p. 287. 1915. 



