THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE V. VOL. I. 



No. IX. — SEPTEMBER, 1904. 



OE,XO-I35rJLIj -A-I^TIGLIES. 



I. — Eminent Living Geologists : 



WiLFKID HUDLESTON HuDLESTON, J.P., M.A., F.E.S., F.L.S., 



F.G.S., F.C.S., etc., 

 (WITH A POETEAIT,! PLATE XIV.) 



GEOLOGY is a science which owes, not only its inception, but its 

 continued existence largely to its non-professional disciples and 

 lovers. In fact, of the two classes existing at the present time, the 

 'amateur' and the 'professional/ it would by no means be difficult 

 to show that the former gave birth to the latter, and that some of 

 the best living professional geologists have been recruited from the 

 ranks of the amateur class. To a small band of early amateurs we 

 are indebted for the foundation alike of the Geological Society and 

 the Geological Survey in this country. 



At the beginning of the last century — indeed, during the first half 

 of it — geological teachers were scarce, and Natural Science had not 

 attained a recognised position in our public schools. But for the 

 early training received from William Smith (known as " the father 

 of English geology ") we might never have heard of his distinguished 

 nephew, Professor John Phillips. Nor can we omit to recall the 

 illustrious names of Hutton, Macculloch, Greenough, Conybeare, 

 Fitton, Broderip, Darwin, Godwin-Austen, Fisher, Sorby ; with 

 Buckland, Sedgwick, Phillips, Forbes, Morris, Prestwich, Green, 

 Bonney, and Nicholson, among our past University Lecturers ; 

 and De la Beche, Griffith, Portlock, Murchison, Ramsay, Jukes, 

 and Geikie, as leaders of Surveys ; and Hutton. Lyell, Poulett- 

 Scrope, Huxley, Geikie, and others, among our classical geological 

 writers, most of whom studied geology and palaeontology in their 

 early years as amateurs, and several of whom remained so all 

 their lives. 



Now, all is changed. Owing to the numerous centres for public 

 instruction and the introduction of Natural Science teaching in our 

 Universities, a large number of fully trained geological students is 



1 The portrait of Mr. Hudleston is reproduced by kind permission of " The 

 Biographical Press AgeEcy," 16, Henrietta Street, Strand, W.C— Ed. Geol. Mag. 



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