THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE V. VOL. III. 



No. I.— JANUARY, 1906. 



OIRXOIlsrjLXi .A-IiTICIjES. 



I. — Eminent Living Geologists : 



THOMAS McKENNY HUGHES, M.A., F.E.S., F.G.S., F.S.A., 



"Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the University of Cambridge ; 



of Trinity College, Cambridge ; Professorial Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge ; 



Chevalier of the Order SS. Maurice et Lazarus, Italia; 



Corr. Memb. Geol. Soc. Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, etc. 



(WITH A PORTRAIT, PLATE I.) 



AMONG the great body of geologists, who are justly entitled by 

 their work in this field of science to rank as " knights- 

 commanders of the hammer," there is no one more distinguished, as 

 well for his active services as for the geniality of his disposition and 

 his bonhomie, than the amiable and accomplished occupant of the 

 Woodwardian Chair of Geology in the University of Cambridge, 

 Professor T, McKenny Hughes. 



He was born at Aberystwyth, in Wales, and is the son of that 

 most famous and popular Bishop of St. Asaph (1807-1889) well 

 known as a prelate who preached and talked to his people fluently 

 in Welsh, and was beloved by all in his diocese accordingly. 

 Mr. T. McKenny Hughes is also brother of the present Bishop of 

 Llandaff, and a grandson of Sir Thomas McKenny, Bart., who took 

 a very prominent part in promoting Catholic emancipation and 

 similar movements in Ireland. 



Spending much of his early days in the Principality, Mr. Hughes 

 naturally acquired a thorough knowledge of Welsh, and has never 

 ceased to cherish a love for the Cambrian mountains and valleys of 

 his native land, where he also imbibed from association much of the 

 happy disposition and quickness of mode characteristic of the Welsh 

 people, together with their love of music and anecdote. His early 

 education was acquired at Leamington and Llandovery Colleges, 

 whence he afterwards entered at Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 in 1853. While an undergraduate he was an associate of the Kay 



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