

\VILFRID HUDLfcSTON fcUDtESTON, k.A., F.R.S. CV. 



the Geologists' Association, of which he became President in 

 1 88 1. In 1886 Mr. Hudleston succeeded Prof. Morris as one of 

 the editors of the " Geological Magazine," and the same year he 

 took office as one of the secretaries of the Geological Society. 

 Following Sir Archibald Geikie, he was in 1892 elected 

 President, and in 1897 was awarded the society's highest mark 

 of distinction, the Wollaston Gold Medal. 



Amongst other evidences of the high esteem in which Mr. 

 Hudleston was held in the scientific world we note that he was 

 at one time on the Council of the Royal Geographical Society ; 

 in 1898 President of the Geological Section of the British 

 Association at Bristol ; and was also elected President of the 

 Devonshire Association, of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, 

 and of the Malton Field Naturalists' Society. Only a week or so 

 before his death he received the gold medal of the British 

 Ornithological Society. 



After many years of early and middle life spent in Yorkshire 

 and London, Mr. Hudleston became a Dorset landed proprietor 

 in 1897, purchasing the West Holme estate, near Wareham, but 

 still keeping his London residence in Stanhope Gardens, South 

 Kensington. He was married in 1890 to Miss Rose Benson, 

 second daughter of Mr. W. H. Benson, of Littlethorpe, near 

 Ripon. To Mrs. Hudleston the Members of the Dorset Field 

 Club unite in tendering their sincerest sympathy in her sudden 

 bereavement. 



Late as it was in his life when Mr. Hudleston joined our 

 society, he enthusiastically identified himself with its interests 

 and threw himself with his characteristic genial activity into its 

 undertakings. On the score of his advanced age he declined 

 the offer of the presidency of the Club, made to him on the 

 retirement of Lord Eustace Cecil ; but his leadership in 

 geological excursions notably the coasting trip given on his 

 personal invitation in July, 1907 and his constant readiness to 

 give to all enquirers the benefit of his immense knowledge will 

 ever be remembered with admiration and gratitude by all who 

 can claim the privilege of having accompanied him. 



