IN MEMORIAM. 



Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. (1836-1905).— Captain F. W. Hutton, 

 who was President of the New Zealand Institute at the time of his 

 death, was born in Lincolnshire in November, 1836, and received his 

 earlier education at Southwell Grammar School and at the Royal Naval 

 Academy at Gosport. After serving for some time as a midshipman 

 he left the sea and studied at King's College, London. Soon, however, 

 he received a commission in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and saw active 

 service in the Crimea and in the Indian Mutiny. 



He had already devoted some attention to geology, and on his return 

 to London in 1860 he was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of 

 London, and during the next few years gained further practical know- 

 ledge of this science by accompanying the officers of the Geological Survey, 

 and in 1862 he published a paper on " The Use of Geology to Military 

 Officers." 



In 1866 he resigned his commission in the army, and came to New 

 Zealand and settled for a time in the Waikato district. Before long he 

 was appointed to the Geological Survey Department, and commenced 

 his geological work in New Zealand by making a geological survey of the 

 Lower Waikato district, and this was soon followed by reports of the 

 geology of other parts of Auckland. In 1871, on his appointment as 

 Assistant Geologist, he removed to Wellington, and resided there for nearly 

 three years, when he was appointed Provincial Geologist of Otago, and 

 took up his residence in Dunedin. Here he continued his geological work 

 and published a geological map of Otago, and, in connection with the late 

 Professor Ulrich, brought out a work on the geology of Otago. 



He had already commenced work also at the zoology of New Zea- 

 land, where the labours of a systematist were greatly needed, and in 1871 

 had published a catalogue with specific diagnoses of the birds of New 

 Zealand. This was soon followed by a catalogue of the fishes, and papers 

 on the bats and lizards, and in 1873 his catalogue on the marine Mollusea 

 appeared, thus laying the foundation for the large amount of work which 

 he afterwards did on the New Zealand Mollusea. 



In 1876 he was appointed Professor of Natural Science at Otago 

 University, and had charge of the Otago Museum, which indeed he may 

 be said to have founded, for the building was designed and all the internal 

 arrangements fitted up under his direction, and a large part of the natural- 

 history specimens were brought together by his exertions. 



About four years later he was appointed Professor of Biology at 

 Canterbury College, and about the time of his removal to Christchurch 

 he published a little work, " Zoological Exercises," in which he adapted 

 the method of instruction in natural science by Huxley to the special 



