MEMOIK OF THE AUTHOK 



FREDERICK WOLLASTON HUTTON, second son of the 

 Eev. H. F. Hutton, was born at Gate Burton, 

 Lincolnshire, November 16th, 1836. On his 

 mother's side he came of a family (Wollaston) which 

 claims to have given to the Royal Society more 

 Fellows than any other. William Wollaston 

 (d. 1724) author of " The Eeligion of Nature 

 Delineated," was his great-great-great-grandfather, 

 and Thomas Vernon Wollaston (d. 1879), a friend 

 of and fellow- worker with Charles Darwin, and 

 author of " The Variation of Species, with special 

 reference to the Insecta " (1856), was his uncle, and 

 it was from him that he first learned to take delight 

 in the accurate observation of natural phenomena. 



Educated at Southwell and at the Naval 

 Academy, Gosport, but prevented from entering 

 the Koyal Navy through being over age at 

 the date of his nomination, he served three years in 

 the India Mercantile Marine, and then entered 

 King's College, London, whence he was gazetted 

 ensign in the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusileers in 1855 

 (lieutenant 1857, and captain 1862). He served in 

 the Crimea, 1855-56, and was also present at the 

 capture and relief of Lucknow, and at the defeat 

 of the Gwalior mutineers under Sir Colin Campbell , 



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