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3u riDemoriam. 



WILFRED H. HUDLESTON, F.R.S., F.G.S., etc. 

 (1828-1909). 



(plate VIII.). 



Another gap in the group of prominent Yorkshire Geologists 

 occurred on Friday evening, January 29th, when Mr. W. H. 

 Hudleston passed away, after a very brief illness. The day 

 previous, though he was in his eight-first year, he was in his 

 usual health, being remarkably active and energetic for his age. 



Mr. Hudleston was born at York, and his early years were 

 devoted to the study of ornithology. Between 1853 and i860 

 he travelled extensively in Europe and northern x^frica ; and 

 at the celebration of the jubilee of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union, held in London a month before his death, he was one of 

 four original members who received a gold medal. 



In his boyhood days he was a play-fellow of the late Henry 

 Clifton Sorby, whose death we only recently had to deplore. 

 He was then known as Simpson, his father being Dr. Simpson, 

 of Harrogate. He joined the Geological Society of London in 

 1867 in the name of Simpson, but a fortnight later changed his 

 name to that more familiar to us. 



In the 'seventies he devoted much time to the study of the 

 Yorkshire Secondary Rocks, and his well-known monographs on 

 the Palaeontology of Yorkshire Oolites, which appeared in the 

 'Geological Magazine,' and in the Reports of the Palaeonto- 

 graphical Society, are amongst the earliest and best known of 

 his published papers. These at once stamped his reputation as 

 a careful student of fossil forms, and though written so long ago, 

 they are in constant use by workers in these fields to-day. 



In the 'seventies also he was for three years the secretary of 

 the London Geologists' Association, and became its President 

 in 1881. From 1886-1890 he was one of the Secretaries of 

 the Geological Society , and was its President for the years 

 1892-4. The Wollaston Medal, the highest award of the 

 Geological Society, was bestowed upon him in 1897, and in the 

 following year he was President of Section ' C ' of the British 

 Association, at the Bristol Meeting. 



Yorkshire geologists particularly regret the departure of a 

 most amiable and able leader of excursions, and on the many 

 occasions upon which he conducted parties around the quarries 

 in the Scarborough district, his value was realized. 



1909 March i. 



