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mercantile marine. He then entered King's College, London. 

 He became an ensign in the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers in 1855, 

 and was made lieutenant in 1857 and captain in 1862. After 

 serving in the Crimea in 1855 and 1856, he went to India, and 

 was present at the capture and relief of Lucknow and at other 

 engagements. In 1860, he returned to England, and six years 

 later he came to New Zealand with his family. He was 

 appointed Assistant Geologist to the New Zealand Geological 

 Survey in 1871, Provincial Geologist of Otago and curator of 

 the Otago Museum in 1873, and Professor of Natural Science at 

 the Otago University in 1877. In 1880 he was appointed 

 Professor of Biology and Geology at Canterbury College, 

 Christchurch, and in 1893 he became curator of Canterbury 

 Museum, a position which he held until his death. 



His services to his country have been recognised by 

 the erection of a tablet in Canterbury College, and 

 by the " Hutton Memorial Medal," which was struck by 

 the Governor of the New Zealand Institute, with the assistance 

 of the New Zealand Government. His most lasting memorial, 

 however, will be found in his literary work. He edited the 

 Index Faunae Novae Zealandiae for the Pliilosophieal 

 Institute of Canterbury, wrote A Class-hooh of Elementary 

 Geology, Darwinism and Lamarckism Old and New, and 

 The Lesson of Evolution, contributed largely to scientific 

 journals in different parts of the British Empire, prepared 

 thirteen descriptive catalogues and geological reports for the 

 New Zealand Government, and published more than a hundred 

 papers in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute and 

 other periodicals in Australasia. He had studied nearly all 

 branches of science in New Zealand, and many investigators 

 in the future will be grateful to him for the work he did. 



J. D. 



Christchurch, New Zealand. 

 February 27th, 1909. 



