Obituary— John Whitaher Sulke, F.R.8. 189 



. Whether it is desirable to introduce the term Aptian into English 

 nomenclature is another question, into which I forbear from entering. 

 The suggestion that some part of the Folkestone sands may be 

 equivalent to the basal part of the Gault made by my friend 

 Mr. Strahan in the Geological Survey Memoir on the Isle of Wight, 

 second edition, 1889. It will no doubt be decided by future 

 investigations, but I must be allowed to point out that it stands on 

 very ditferent ground from the equivalency of the Upper Gault and 

 Upper Greensand. That has been established by pal^ontological 

 evidence, the other has not. 



One more word as a caution, and this is that the numerous zones 

 into which the Folkestone Gault has been divided cannot all be 

 recognized elsewhere : I do not think the Lower Ganlt generally 

 can be divided into more than two zones, those of Ammonites 

 interruptus and Amm. lautus. A. J. Jukes-Bkowne. 



OBia?TJj^ia3r. 



JOHN WHITAKER HULKE, F.R.S., 



President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ; Foreign Secretary 



of the Geological Society of London. 



• Born November 6th, 1830. Died February 19th, 1895. 



Geologists, both at home and abroad, indeed, men of science 

 generally, will have learned with deep concern of the death of Mr. 

 J. W. Hulke, the Foreign Secretary of the Geological Society, the 

 President of the Eoyal College of Surgeons of England, and Senior 

 Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital. 



Viewed as a surgeon, Mr. Hulke had a career of singular 

 distinction as well as of wide range. But he was also a most 

 accomplished geologist and palaeontologist. He was a learned 

 Shakespearian ; also an excellent linguist, and while keeping up 

 a more than ordinary acquaintance with the classics, he was a fluent 

 and accurate French and German scholar, and possessed also a 

 knowledge of Italian. He was a first-rate botanist, both in the 

 lecture-room and the field, as may be seen from the opening half 

 of the Hunterian Oration this year, which illness prevented him 

 from delivering. He was an excellent diagrammatic artist, painted, 

 in water-colours, and was not unskilled in anodelling. 



John Whitaker Hulke was born on November 6th, 1830, being 

 the elder son of a well-known and widely respected genei-al 

 practitioner at Deal. The original family name was Hulcher, his 

 ancestors being Dutch by origin, who had escaped from Holland 

 during the Spanish persecutions under Philip 11. and Ferdinand, 

 Duke of Alva, and settled on the Kentish coast. There for some 

 two hundred years they have followed the vocation of medicine. 

 He was educated at King's College School, and at Neuwied, in 

 Germany, and at the age of nineteen entered the medical school of 

 King's College, where he was a dresser to Mr. (afterwards Sir) 

 William Bowman, and house surgeon to Sir William Fergusson. 



