432 Eminent Living Geologists — W. H. Hiidleston. 



being turned out annually " for borne and colonial consumption," 

 and we need no longer rely altogether upon the casual crop of 

 young men having an innate love of the science, which may prompt 

 them to take up geology because they are interested in it. Many, 

 indeed, nowadays may be " called," but possibly' not all those 

 " chosen " have a genuine love for the science they affect. 



It is pleasant to record the scientific services of one who, while he 

 belongs to the non -professional class of geologists, has yet achieved 

 a very large amount of most excellent work, both in geology and 

 palasontology, and has, by his merit, won for himself the blue ribbon 

 of the science. Wilfrid Hudleston Hudleston (formerly Simpson) 

 was the son of Dr. John Simpson, of Knaresborough, who married 

 Elizabeth Ward, heiress of the Hudlestons of Cumberland, and by 

 letters-patent assumed the name of Hudleston in 1867. Wilfrid, the 

 eldest son, was born at York on June 2nd, 1828, being the descendant 

 of three generations of Yorkshire 'medicine-men.' From 1831 to 

 1834 his parents resided at Harrogate, where he remembers meeting 

 his first playfellow, Henry Clifton Sorby — afterwards a distinguished 

 geologist, an LL.D., F.R.S., and President (1878-80) of the 

 Geological Society of London — then a schoolboy in the neighbourhood. 

 Young Simpson received his early education at St. Peter's School, 

 York, from which he was transferred to Uppingham School, and 

 subsequently entered St. John's College, Cambridge, where he 

 graduated B.A. in 1850. As a boy and an undergraduate he 

 evinced no special predilection for geology beyond a strange boyish 

 curiosity to know what the earth was made of. In his last term at 

 Cambridge he attended Sedgwick's lectures, and was much impressed 

 with the manner and appearance of that distinguished geologist. On 

 leaving Cambridge he devoted some time to the study of the Law, 

 and was called to the Bar in 1853, but never practised. A consider- 

 able portion of the twelve years 1850-1862 was spent in foreign 

 travel in various parts of Europe and North Africa. 



Mr. Simpson accompanied Professor Alfred Newton, of Cambridge, 

 and Mr. John Wolley, in the pursuit of Ornithology, to Lapland, 

 spending the Summer of 1855 in that country. He subsequently 

 explored the Eastern Atlas, Algeria, in company with Canon 

 Tristram and Mr. Osbert Salvin. Afterwards, more than twelve 

 months were occupied in travels and collecting in Greece and 

 Turkey. During this time attention was given to the physical 

 and geological features of the various countries visited, but 

 Ornithology occupied a foremost place. 



From 1862 to 1867, his long period of distant travel being mostly 

 over, Mr. Simpson began a special course of scientific studies, 

 selecting more particularly Natural History and Chemistry. During 

 this time he studied at Edinburgh under Playfair and Stephenson 

 Macadam, and subsequently for three sessions at the Royal College 

 of Chemistry in London under Hoffmann, Frankland, and Valentine. 

 At that time he was undecided whether to take Chemistry or 

 Geology as his principal subject, when an accident determined his 

 studies in favour of the latter. Mr. Simpson had the good fortune to 



