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Hutton retired from the army in 1866, after seeing active service 

 in the Crimea, in China, and in India during the Mutiny. Upon 

 his retirement he emigrated to New Zealand, and had nearly 

 completed forty years of almost uninterrupted scientific and 

 educational work in that Colony. Captain Hutton died at sea, 

 while on the return voyage from a holiday trip to Europe, on 

 27th October, 1905, within a few days of the completion of his 

 69th year. A brief biographical sketch of Captain Hutton will 

 be found in ' Nature ' for 9th Nov., 1905 (p.32). A less recent, 

 but much longer account of his life and work, with a portrait, 

 was published in the ' New Zealand Journal of Science ' (Vol.ii., 

 No. 7, p. 301). At the time of his death Captain Hutton was 

 President of the New Zealand Institute. His New Zealand 

 colleagues have already taken steps to inaugurate a Hutton 

 Memorial Research Fund. Captain Hutton contributed several 

 papers to our Proceedings. He will be affectionately remembered 

 by Australian scientists who have had frequent opportunities of 

 meeting him on his periodical visits, particularly in connection 

 with the meetings of the Australasian Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



Mr. H. I. Jensen, B.Sc, has been reappointed to a Linnean 

 Macleay Fellowship; but the Council did not see its way to 

 make any new appointments of Macleay Fellows last year. The 

 standard which the Council has fixed is a high one, and it is 

 considered desirable that the most ample proof of ability and of 

 sufficient preliminary experience should be asked from Candidates 

 for so important appointments. 



The present Macleay Fellow, Mr. Jensen, during the past year 

 has been occupied with a research on the distribution, nature and 

 sequence of volcanic rocks, particularly trachytes, in certain 

 districts. In April, 1905, he went to Queensland, where he spent 

 three months investigating in the field and mapping the volcanic 

 masses of parts of the East Moreton and Wide Bay districts. 

 He found that rocks of the Glass House Mountain type recur 

 about twenty miles north of the Glass House Mountains, in the 

 Maroochy River district, near Yandina, after a considerable 



