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relating^ to the origin of the New Zealand fauna and flora he 

 especially devoted himself, and bringing to bear upon these all 

 his wide knowledge as a zoologist and his experience as a 

 geologist, his contributions to the solution of this complex 

 problem have made his name known throughout the world as a 

 recognized authority on questions of geographical distribution 

 of animals and plants. It was for their bearing on this question 

 that he took such a keen interest in the results of the various 

 Antarctic expeditions that have recently returned from their 

 fields of observation, and even after his arrival in England he 

 contributed an important article to NaUire on the Antarctic 

 continent. 



His grasp of science was not limited even to such matters as 

 these. Hence he attacked even wider questions. One of his 

 very first contributions to scientific literature was a review of 

 Darwin's "Origin of Species" in the Geologist in 1861 — a 

 review which gained from Darwin an appreciative letter, of 

 which Captain Hutton was justifiably proud ; and throughout 

 his career Captain Hutton returned from time to time to the 

 more philosophical questions underlying the whole of natural 

 science. His devotion to these subjects was the key-note to his 

 success. Some of his articles on them were issued a few years 

 ago in book form under the title of " Darwinism and Lamarck- 

 ism," and a later work " The Lesson of Evolution," contains his 

 presidential address to the Australasian Association at Hobart 

 in 1902, and kindred essays, and attracted much attention, not 

 only from naturalists, but from all thinking men. Another was 

 a work undertaken in conjunction with Mr. James Drummond — 

 " Animals of New Zealand," which, in popular form, dealt with 

 all New Zealand's fauna. No one more deserves a memorial — 

 can he have better ones than his " Index " and the later work } 



South Australian Ornithological Association, 



The bi-monthly meeting of this Association was held at the residence of 

 Dr. A. M. Morgan, Adelaide, on Friday evening, 8th September, when Mr. 

 F. R. Zietz presided. Mr. M. Symonds Clark noted that he had seen the 

 Blue-bellied Lorikeet {TricJio^lossus nova'-hollandicc) recently in the 

 National Park. Mr. A. H. C. Zietz, F.L.S., reported having identified the 

 Chestnut-bellied Quail {Excalfoctoria lincaia) from Port Victor district, 

 which showed a large range of this northern bird. He had also received 

 notes from Ur. Angove, of Tea-tree (ndly, of the finding of the Red-chested 

 Quail {Turnix pyrrhotliorax) in that locality. Mr. M. Symonds Clark drew 

 attention to an original edition of Capt. Sturt's book, in which was recorded 

 the discovery of the Pink Cockatoo {Cacatua Icadhcaicri)., in 1829, when the 

 explorer located the Darling River, and the finding of the "Blue -Mountain" 

 Lorikeet in the Wellington Valley in the Blue Mountains, New South 

 Wales, in 1828. Mr. Clark read clippings from The Rei^ister of I2th 

 August, 1875, giving the list of birds identified by Mr. F. W. Andrews, an 

 ornithologist who accompanied J. W. Lewis's expedition to Lake Eyre 



