434 Eminent Living Geologists — W. H. Iliidieston. 



Kensington. In 1890 be married Miss Rose Benson, second 

 daughter of the late William Hey wood Benson, Esq., of Littlelhorpe,. 

 near Eipon. 



On the death of his old friend, Professor Morris, in 1886, Mr. 

 Hudleston succeeded him as one of the Editors of the Geological 

 Magazine, to which, since 1879, he has been a frequent contributor. 



He is a keen student of recent and fossil mollusca, and was one 

 of the founders of the Malacological Society, 



In 1886 accompanied by his friends Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., 

 and Mr. C. E. Eobinson, Memb. Inst. C.E., Mr. Hudleston made 

 some experimental dredgings, with the aid of a Brixham trawler 

 and her crew, along the English Channel and in and near Torbay,. 

 for the purpose of studying marine mollusca and observing their 

 living habitats ; and in the following year he engaged a Grimsby 

 steam-trawler and her crew, and, accompanied by Mr. C. E. Robinson 

 and the late lamented Martin F. Woodward, of the Royal College 

 of Science (second son of Dr. Henry Woodward), he spent three 

 ■weeks in a dredging cruise in the English Channel to tlie west of 

 Portsmouth and along the French coast. 



In 1886 Mr. Hudleston became one of the Secretaries of the 

 Geological Society of London, an office which he continued to 

 hold until 1890. Following Sir Archibald Geikie, D.Sc, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., Mr. Hudleston was in 1892 elected to fill the office of 

 President, and during the two years in which he occupied the chaii- 

 he delivered two important Addresses, dealing with the recent work 

 of the Geological Society, which he passed critically in review, 

 taking the papers on Tertiary and Secondary formations in 1893 and 

 those on the Palaeozoic and Fundamental rocks in 1894. 



Three years later, in 1897, Mr. Hudleston was awarded the highest 

 honour which the Council could bestow, the Wollaston Gold Medal of 

 the Geological Society, in recognition of his valuable contributions to 

 our knowledge, treating of chemical, mineralogical, palaeontological, 

 and stratigraphical geology. Special reference was made to his 

 " Monograph on the Inferior Oolite Gasteropoda," which contained 

 no less than 514 quarto pages of letterpress and 44 quarto plates of 

 fossils. The labour involved in collecting, cleaning, and developing 

 the Oolitic Gasteropoda procured for this work, all of which are now 

 arranged in his private Museum in Stanhope Gardens, occupied 

 Mr. Hudleston, with the co-operation of A. H. Bloomfield, Henry 

 Keeping, B. Reynolds, Peter CuUen, and others, over a period of 

 twenty years, fresh excavations having occasionally been made 

 in quest of new species or to obtain better examples of those already 

 known. In addition to this, some private collections, including those 

 of Mr. S. S. Buckmau and Mr. Darrel Stephens, were acquired by 

 purchase. The Gasteropoda alone number many thousand specimens, 

 carefully labelled and arranged, the ' types ' being all specially 

 marked. It is not too much to say that this was in all respects 

 a model of what a monograph should be. No previous author had 

 taken such pains to verify in the field the horizons from which the 



