r570 Miscellaneous — Diplodocus Carnegiei. 



F. W. Hutton was the second son of the Eev. H. F. Button, and 

 was born at Gate Burton, Lincolnshire, 16th November, 1836. He 

 was educated at the Southwell Grammar School, and later entered 

 the Naval Academy at Gosport. Being over age when nominated 

 for the Royal Navy, he served as a midshipman in the India 

 Mercantile Marine. He joined the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers in 

 1855, serving in the Crimea 1855-6; was in the relief of Lucknow 

 under Lord Clyde ; and took part in the capture of Lucknow, 

 I'eceiving the medal with two clasps. He entered the Staff College 

 in 1860, passing out sixth on the list. "Whilst stationed at Malta, 

 in 1866, he communicated an excellent paper to the Geological 

 Magazine on the Geology of Malta (see Vol. Ill, pp. 145-152, and 

 Pis. VIII and IX). More than twenty other papers are recorded to 

 his credit in this journal, and eight in the Quarterly Journal of the 

 Geol. Soc. Lond. In 1866 Capt. Hutton retired from the Army, 

 and emigrated to New Zealand. At first he was attached as an 

 Assistant Geologist to the Geological Survey of New Zealand in 

 1871 ; later on (1873) he was appointed Curator of the Otago 

 Museum, and in 1877 Professor of Natural Science in the Otago 

 University. In 1880 he was appointed Professor of Biology in 

 the University of New Zealand, a post he held until 1893. He 

 joined the Geological Society in 1861, was elected a Corresponding 

 :Memb. Zool. Soc. Lond. in 1872, and an F.R.S. in 1892. He was 

 chosen President of the Australian Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, 1901-2. He held for some years the post of Curator of 

 the Canterbury Museum and Lecturer in Geology in Canterbury 

 College, N.Z. He published a class-book of Elementary Zoology, 

 1879, and a large number of papers in the Transactions of the 

 New Zealand Institute and other Scientific Societies at home and in 

 the Colonies. He was an entomologist as well as a geologist ; 

 indeed, Capt. Hutton may be said to have been a good all-round 

 naturalist and a very able scientific man. 



Capt. Hutton married in 1863 the daughter of W.Montgomerie,M.D. 



BiPLODOGus Cabnegiei. (Plate XXV.) 

 This huge Dinosaur (PI. XXV) is one of the largest of ancient 

 terrestrial animals, being 14 feet high and 80 feet in length. The 

 head is very small, but the neck is extremely long and flexible. 

 The teeth are confined to the front of the jaws, and are small and 

 peg-like, and could only have served to collect the succulent 

 vegetation on which the creature is supposed to have subsisted. 

 The body is relatively short, but the length of the ribs and the 

 massiveness of the limbs show it to have been of immense size and 

 weight. The tail was of extraoixlinary length, and consisted of more 

 than 70 verfebiEe, being about half the total length of the animal. 

 As the nostrils open quite on the top of the head, a position which 

 would be particularly convenient to an air-breathing animal that 

 lived under water, it has been suggested that it was probably serai - 

 aquatic in its habits, living mostly at the bottom of shallow lakes and 

 rivers, browsing on water-plants, and putting up its head to breathe. 



