Obituary— Wilfrid H. Hudleston. 143 



Liffey Valley ". He frequently wrote in the Irish Naturalist ; and to 

 the Geological Magazine, from the first volume in 1864 to 1888, 

 he contributed no fewer than 85 papers. Besides his numerous 

 articles, many hundreds in number, his principal separate publications 

 were Manual of tiie Geology of Ireland (1878); Valleys, and their 

 relation to Fissures, Fracttires, and Faults (1875) ; Handy Booh of Rock 

 Names (1873) ; A Handy Booh on the Reclamation of Waste Lands in 

 Ireland; and Superficial arid Agricidtural Geology, Ireland (1908), 



No one had so extensive a knowledge of Irish geologv as Kinahau, 

 and he was especially acquainted with the practical side of the science, 

 as shown in the important papers he communicated to the Scientific 

 Proceedings of the lioyal Dublin Society on the Economic Geology of 

 Ireland. 



He is to be regarded as one of the last of that brilliant band of 

 jDioneers in the Irish School of Geology that included Grifiith and 

 Portlock, Jukes, Haughton, and Maxwell Close, whose meetings 

 attracted hundreds of Dublin citizens to learn the story of the building 

 of their island, and to ponder upon the interesting problems which 

 they could so conveniently study near their city. 



His remains were interred in the quiet country churchyard on the 

 hillside near the meeting of the waters in the Vale of Avoca, a district 

 which was one of his latest stations when on active service on the 

 Geological Survey. H. Lkonard and R. Clark. 



WILFRID H. HUDLESTON, J. P., M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., F.C.S., ETC. 



Born June 2, 1828. Died January 29, 1909. 



Among the numerous fellow-workers in science lost to us in the 

 closing months of the old and the opening of the new year, the death 

 of none has been more keenly felt than that of Mr. Hudleston, our 

 friend and co-editor in this Magazine since 1886. 



Educated at Uppingham School he subsequently entered St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, where he graduated E.A. in 1850. Although 

 atti'acted by Professor Sedgwick's lectures he did not take up geology 

 in earnest until he came under the influence of Professor Morris in 

 1866. His earlier years wei'e devoted to the study of the Law, and 

 he was called to the Bar in 1853, but never practised. Attracted by 

 Professor Alfred Newton, of Cambridge, and Mr. John Woolley, 

 Hudleston (who at that time was Wilfrid Simpson) took up the 

 pursuit of ornithology, visiting Lapland in 1855, and subsequently 

 exploring the Eastern Atlas range and Algeria in company with 

 Canon Tristram and Mr. Osbert Salvin. Afterwards he spent a year 

 travelling and collecting in Greece and Turkey. From 1866 to 1886 

 he devoted close attention to the study of geology with John Morris. 

 In 1867 (having taken the name of Hudleston) he was elected a 

 Fellow of the Geological Society. From 1886 to 1890 he served the 

 office of Secretary, and from 1892 to 1894 he occupied the Presidential 

 Chair, receiving the award of the WoUaston Medal in 1897. 

 Mr. Hudleston was President of the Geologists' Association 1881-3, 

 and both by his writings and his conduct of many of its excursions 

 he won the lasting gratitude of the Association. Mr. Hudleston's 



