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son of the Rev. H. S. Hutton, was born in Lincolnshire in 

 1836, and was educated at the Naval Academy, Gosport. 

 After three years' service in the Indian Mercantile Marine, 

 he gave up his naval profession, and entered King's College, 

 London, whence he passed into the 23rd Royal Welsh 

 Fusiliers, becoming a captain of that regiment in 1852. He 

 served in the Crimean War, and distinguished himself in 

 the Indian Mutiny in 1858, having been present at the 

 relief of Lucknow and at the defeat of the Gwalior muti- 

 neers. In 1860 he entered the Staff College at Sandhurst, 

 and passed out sixth in the examination of 1861. 



In 1865 Captain Hutton retired from his military career 

 and emigrated to New Zealand, where he resided first in 

 Auckland and then on the Waikato. Having a strong taste 

 for Geology, he obtained a post as Assistant in the New 

 Zealand Geological Survey in 1871, and removed to 

 Wellington. Two years later he was appointed Provincial 

 Geologist of Otago and Curator of the Otago Museum at 

 Dunedin. Three years afterwards he was made Professor of 

 Biology and Geology in the University of New Zealand at 

 Christchurch, which office he held until 1893, when he 

 accepted the Curatorship of the Christchurch Museum, a 

 post which he occupied at the time of his death. In 1900 

 Captain Hutton was elected President of the Australasian 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 190I< 

 became President of the New Zealand Institute. In 1892 he 

 was elected Fellow of the Hoyal Society, while he was also a 

 member of many other learned and scientific societies on the 

 Continent and in the Colonies. Thus it will be seen that, 

 after relinquishing the military profession, Captain Hutton 

 devoted his life entirely to scientific pursuits. His work 

 was mostly geological, and was published principally in the 

 'Transactions of the New Zealand Institute/ where more than 

 one hundred papers will be found under his name. He was 

 one of our best authorities on the extinct Moas of New 

 Zealand, but had also an excellent knowledge of the recent 

 Avifauna of the Colony. In 1871 he published a catalogue 

 of its Birds, and in 1901, in connexion with Mr. James 



