MEMOIE ix 



In addition to thirteen Descriptive Catalogues and 

 Geological Reports, published by the Government of 

 New Zealand between the years 1868 and 1887, 

 more than a hundred scientific papers in the 

 " Transactions of the New Zealand Institute " and 

 other Australasian scientific periodicals, contribu- 

 tions to the "Philosophical Magazine," 

 "Geologist," "Geological Magazine," "Journal 

 of the Geological Society of London," " Proceedings 

 of the Zoological Society of London," " Ibis," 

 "Nature," etc., "Captain Hutton " as he was 

 always called in New Zealand wrote a ' ' Class-book 

 of Elementary Geology," 1875, " Darwinism and 

 Lamarckism Old and New," published simul- 

 taneously in London and New York, 1899, and, in 

 conjunction with Mr. James Drummond, " Nature 

 in New Zealand," 1902, and " Animals of New 

 Zealand," 1904, the two last-named being published 

 in the Colony. And in 1904 was published in Lon- 

 don his " Index Faunae Novae Zealandiae," edited 

 by him for the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 

 New Zealand. " The Lesson of Evolution," of 

 which the present volume is a revised and much 

 enlarged issue, was first published in London in 

 1902, and extended to only 100 pages. The last 

 published sentences that came from his pen were 

 written during his visit to England, and appeared in 

 the " Hibbert Journal " for October, 1905, under 

 the title " What is Life?" They are reprinted here 

 by the courteous permission of the editor. 



As a memorial of their first President, the 

 Governors of the New Zealand Institute, on the 



