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upon two occasions, in a very substantial manner. A writer at the 

 time^ says : — " After a long series of disappointments and difficulties 

 the indefatigable energy and perseverance of Professor Sedgwick's 

 successor, Professor T. McKenny Hughes, have triumphed over the 

 countless obstacles which hindered the realisation of the scheme. . . . 

 The Architect of the building is Mr. T. G. Jackson, E.A., and he 

 has had the difficult task of designing a museum which should 

 satisfy the needs of the Geological Department and the requirements 

 of the various University syndicates. . . . Whatever may be 

 the opinion of these bodies, the staff and students have good reason 

 to be well pleased with the ample accommodation provided for 

 them, and the collections are now adequately exhibited in the new 

 galleries. Eesearch and other laboratories are provided, and the 

 principal lecture-room is capable of accommodating a class of 

 120 students. Midway between the galleries for Palaaozoic and 

 Neozoic fossils stands the bronze statue of Professor Sedgwick, with 

 his geological hammer in one hand and a slab bearing the Cambrian 

 Trilobite Angelina Sedgioickii in the other." 



One who graduated more than fifty years ago, and knew 

 the old Museum in Sedgwick's lifetime, strolled into the new 

 building in Downing Street, Cambridge, the other day, and, seeing 

 the glories of the Museum for the first time, was heard to exclaim : 

 " How different all this is from what it was in my time ! How 

 I envy the students and the teachers who are privileged to study 

 and work at geology under such favourable conditions as they now 

 enjoy ! I should like to have my time over again in 1906." 



Kemembering the removal of the geological collections of the 

 British Museum from Bloomsbury to South Kensington in 1880, the 

 writer can well understand the enormous difficulties which Professor 

 Hughes must have encountered, with only a very small staff at his 

 command, in carrying out the task of removing the Woodwardian 

 collections from the old building into their new home, and their 

 subsequent rearrangement. ■■ 



But we must not dwell too long upon the "Sedgwick Memorial 

 Museum," save to refer to it as one of the great and important 

 objects carried out by Professor Hughes in connection with the 

 teaching of geology in the University during his term of office. 



After the death of the Rev. Canon Charles Kingsley, the founder 

 and President of the Chester Society of Natural Science, in 1875, 

 Professor T. McKenny Hughes was elected his successor, and 

 delivered several addresses to its members during his term of office. 

 He received the "Kingsley Memorial Medal," established in memory 

 of Charles Kingsley by the Chester Naturalists. Professor Hughes 

 was likewise President of the Kendal Literary and Scientific Society. 



While devoting his energies so largely to the work of the 

 University, Professor Hughes continued to carry on field-work in 

 various parts of the country, notably in Wales, both among the more 

 ancient rocks and among the caves and Drift deposits. The list of 



1 Geol. Mag., 1903, pp. 532-534. 



