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near Cawnpore, November and December, 1858, and 

 received the medal with two clasps for the cam- 

 paign. In 1860 he entered the Staff College at 

 Sandhurst, and passed out sixth in the examination 

 list in 1861. In 1863 he married Annie Gouger, 

 daughter of Dr. William Montgomerie, who had 

 been Superintending Surgeon of the Bengal Medical 

 Service under the H. E. I. C. S., and who had re- 

 ceived in 1843 the Gold Medal of the Society of 

 Arts for having introduced gutta percha into 

 Europe as an article of general utility. But, 

 from the date of his leaving the Staff College, 

 his interests and studies were more scientific than 

 military, and, after having served for a year on the 

 staff at Dublin as Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster- 

 General, he resigned and sold out of the 

 Army in 1865, and emigrated to New Zealand 

 with his wife and two children in January, 

 1866. At first he resided at Auckland and 

 on the Waikato, but without achieving any 

 success as a practical colonist. In 1871 he was 

 appointed Assistant Geologist to the New Zealand 

 Geological Survey , and removed to Wellington ; in 

 1873 he became Provincial Geologist of Otago and 

 Curator of the Otago Museum, and removed to 

 Dunedin, being also appointed Professor of Natural 

 Science at Otago in 1877. Three years later he be- 

 came Professor of Biology and Geology at Canterbury 

 College in the University of New Zealand, and 

 settled at Christchurch. This office he held until 

 1893, when he became Curator of the Christchurch 

 Museum. In 1900 he was elected President of the 



