144 Obitnari/— Wilfrid H. Hiidleston. 



papers and memoirs are numerous,' not only in the Geological 

 Magazine, but also in the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 

 the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, the Proceedings 

 of the Dorset Field Club, the Transactions of the Devonshire 

 Association, etc. 



His greatest undertaking was the preparation of a Monograph on the 

 Inferior Oolite Gasteropoda, issued by the Palseontographical Society 

 1887-96, which comprises no less than 514 quai'to pages of letterpress 

 and 44 quarto plates of fossils. This work, and the systematic collection 

 of the materials for its production, occupied much of the author's time, 

 assisted by A. H. Bloomfield, Henry Keeping, B. Reynolds, Peter 

 Cullen, and others, over a period of twenty years. He also acquired 

 the Gasteropoda from the private collections of Mr. S. S. Buckman, 

 Mr. Darrel Stephens, and others, in order to complete his work. 



So lately as December last he received the gold medal at the hands 

 of the President of the British Ornithological Union in recognition of 

 his early contributions to ornithology. 



His paper on the " Halolimnic Fauna of Lake Tanganyika " 

 appeared as a supplement to the Gkological Magazine for July, 1904 

 (pp. 337-82, with two plates) ; in the September number of that 

 year is a biographical notice of Mr. Hudleston's life and works, with 

 an excellent portrait (op. cit., pp. 431-8). In 1908 he published 

 an important paper "On some Recent Wells in Dorset" (see Geol. 

 Mag., 1908, pp. 212, 243). 



Mr. Hudleston's life was marked by untiring energy, directed with 

 a steady purpose throughout. Besides his numerous scientific interests 

 he was a keen sportsman and fisherman. He administered the aifairs 

 of his landed properties in Dorset, Yorkshire, Northumberland, etc., 

 with great skill and judgment, and left his estates in good order for 

 liis administrators. Quite lately he provided a site and advanced 

 capital for erecting a Marine Biological Laboratory at Cullercoats, 

 IS^orthumberland, to be named the " Dove Laboratory" (after a great 

 ancestor of his family), the completed building having been handed 

 over to the authorities last year at a meeting under the presidency of 

 His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. 



Mr. Hudleston took a warm interest in many local scientific 

 societies in Dorset, Devon, and Yorkshire. He was a Vice-President 

 of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, and 

 contributed some valuable papers to its proceedings on the geology of 

 that county. He had quite lately been busily engaged in rearranging 

 the fossils in the Dorset County Museum, to which he had also largely 

 contributed from his own cabinets. 



Ever active up to the last, he had planned (in pencil) the speech he 

 intended to deliver at the Special General Meeting of the Geological 

 Society on February 10, and on January 20 he posted to his friend 

 the Editor of the Geological Magazine the able review which appears 

 in the present number on the Geology of India (see pp. 127-31). 



So terminates a life devoted to scientific work, happily ending 

 without pain or illness, from heart failure, at his country residence, 

 West Holme, Wareham. 



' A list of fifty-eight is giyen in the Geol. Mag., 1904, pp. 436-S. 



