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Wilfrid Hudleston Hudleston was boru at York on June 2nd, 

 1828. He was the son of a physician, Dr. John Simpson of 

 Kuaresborough, whose wife was through her mother an heiress 

 and a representati^'e of the family of Hudleston of Hutton John 

 in Cumberland, In 1867 Dr. Simpson and his two sons, by letters 

 patent, assumed the name of Hudleston. Wilfrid was educated at 

 St. Peter's School, York, at Uppingham, and St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, and in 1853 he was called to the Bar but does not seem 

 to have practised. 



After leaving Cambridge his attention was directed to ornitho- 

 logy, and in pursuance of the study he made in 1855 several 

 journeys in different parts of Europe and in Northern Africa. 



In his last term at Cambridge he had attended Sedgwick's 

 lectures, and in 1862 he began a systematic study of natural 

 science, firstly at Edinburgh and afterwards at the Eoyal College 

 of Chemistry in Oxford Street. He thus acquired a good know- 

 ledge of chemistry which was very useful to him in his subsequent 

 geological work. He appears to have definitely devoted himself to 

 geology about the year 1866, when he made the acquaintance of 

 Jolni Morris, and he became a EelJow of the Geological Society in 

 1867. 



He was elected a Fellow of our Society on November 7th, 1878, 

 but did not contribute anything to our publications. 



Hudleston was President of the Geologists' Association, 1881-83. 

 He became a Fellow of the Eoyal Society in 1884, was President 

 of the Geological Society in 1892-94, and of the Geological Section 

 of the British Association at Bristol in 1898. For many years he 

 was one of the Editors of the ' Geological Magazine.' He received 

 the AVoUaston IMedal of the Geological Society in 1897. 



In 1890 Mr. Hudleston married Eose, second daughter of 

 William Heywood Benson, of Little Thorpe, Kipon, who survives 

 him. They lived at 8 Stanhope Gardens, South Kensington, and 

 at West Holme, a property which he purchased between Wareham 

 and Lulworth in Dorsetshire. His Geological and Ornithological 

 collections were housed at Stanhope Gardens, and his Museum was 

 visited by the Geologists' Association on March 1 1th, 1899. 



Hudleston's most important work was the Monograph on the 

 Inferior Oolite Gasteropoda, published by the Pal?eontographical 

 Society. He contributed numerous papers to various scientific 

 societies and to the ' Geological Magazine.' 



Hudleston was a man of great energy, a good shot and fond of 

 fishing, and retained his activity to the last. He died suddenly at 

 West Holme from heart failure on January 29th, 1909. 



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Frederick Edward Hulme was born at Hanley in Staffordshire 

 in 1841, and became a prolific author in many departments, some 

 of which did not arise out of his position at King's College, 

 London, as professor of drawing, but from his wide range of 



