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requirements of New Zealand students. In Christchurch he continued 

 to publish papers on various branches of New Zealand zoology, but these 

 were varied with others on various geological questions, and for some 

 time, owing to the wants of his students, he devoted considerable atten- 

 tion to botany. Later on he had temporary charge of the Canterbury 

 Museum after the death of Sir Julius von Haast, and in 1893 he succeeded 

 Mr. H. 0. Forbes as Curator, and acted also as lecturer on geology — for 

 this purpose resigning the professorship of biology. 



About three years ago, feeling the strain of lecturing too much for him, 

 he gave up his lectureship, but continued as Curator of the Museum. In 

 March, 1905, he left for England on leave of absence, but almost imme- 

 diately after his arrival there he had a second attack of the severe illness 

 from which he had suffered about two years before, and though he recovered 

 to some extent he did not survive to reach New Zealand, but died during 

 the return voyage. 



Captain Hutton naturally took a large share in the worK ot tne various 

 scientific societies of New Zealand and Australia. He was successively 

 a member of the Institutes at Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, and Christ - 

 church, and served several times as Secretary, Treasurer, or President 

 in the two last named. He was also an honorary member of the Linnaean 

 Society of New South Wales, Fellow of the Zoological and Geological 

 Societies, and member and President of the Australasian Ornithological 

 Union. In the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 

 he served as General Secretary for the Christchurch meeting in 1891, 

 President of Section C (Geology) in 18S0 and 1898, and President of the 

 Association at the Hobart meeting in 1902. He was elected a Fellow 

 of the Royal Society of London in 1892, and in 1904, after the reconstitution 

 of the New Zealand Institute, he was unanimously elected its first Pre- 

 sident. 



Of Captain Hutton's work on the geology and zoology of New Zealand 

 some mention has been already made. Naturally a great part of his time 

 was devoted to systematic work, and many papers dealing with practically 

 all classes of animals will be found in the " Transactions of the New Zealand 

 Institute," and in the scientific journals of Australia and Europe. To the 

 birds he devoted special attention, and his important paper on the " Moas 

 of New Zealand " (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxiv) requires special mention. 

 He also gave much time to the study of the Mollusca, and in addition 

 to many papers in the Transactions published several catalogues of them, 

 the most important of them being his " Manual of the New Zealand Mol- 

 lusca.'" issued separately in 1880, and in the same way he catalogued many 

 of the different groups of insects. His systematic work was summed 

 up and brought so far as possible to a conclusion in the " Index Faunae 

 Novse-Zealandise," edited by him and published by the Philosophical 

 Institute of Canterbury in 1904, and a glance through its pages will show 

 how large a number of the animals recorded from New Zealand have been 

 named and described by him. Two more popular works written in con- 

 junction with Mr. James Drummond deserve mention — viz., " Nature 

 in New Zealand " and " The Animals of New Zealand," the latter being 

 a beautifully illustrated account of the air-breathing vertebrates of New 

 Zealand. 



But Captain Hutton was far more than a systematist, and as far 

 back as 1873 he dealt with the origin of the fauna and flora of New Zea- 

 land in a paper " On the Geographical Relations of the New Zealand 

 Fauna " (Trans. N.Z. Inst., v, p. 227), and he returned to the subject 

 again in 1884 and 1885, and a concise and judicial summing-up of our 

 knowledge of the subject will be found in the introduction to the " Index 

 Faunas Novae-Zealandiae." Of the various explanations offered by him 



