Professor T. Mc Kenny Hughes, F.R.S., F.G.8. 9 



Cathedral. Mrs. Hughes inherits the artistic skill of her father and 

 inother ; she is a good linguist and has extensive scientific knowledge, 

 but she devotes herself now entirely to her husband's pursuits. She is 

 a, keen geologist, and, in the field on geological excursions, her 

 presence is greatly appreciated. 



The writer recalls a delightful excursion some years ago to the 

 Wrekin, led by Professor Lapworth, in which Professor and 

 Mrs. McKenny Hughes took part, and he remembers seeing the 

 three happily engaged hammering at a block of HoUybush sandstone, 

 from which Mrs. Hughes, with her own hammer, extracted some good 

 remains of Olenellus, to the joy of the party. 



In the far western wilds of America, when their commissariat 

 broke down, Mrs. Hughes cooked for a party of 17, and was 

 described by one of the speakers at the closing meeting as " un 

 vrai rayon de soleil dans nos miseres." 



In Eussia, after announcing Mrs. Hughes' arrival, the Eeport 

 (Comptes Eendus, p. cclxxxii) adds, " depuis le charme de notre 

 societe." 



She was the only lady member of the Eeichstag at Berlin when 

 old Von Dechen began his Presidential address " Madame et 

 Messieurs." 



Mrs. Hughes worked long and diligently at the Pleistocene 

 deposits in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, and published an 

 excellent paper thereon in the Geological Magazine for May, 1888 

 (pp. 193-207, illustrated by five sections). She also gave a very 

 exhaustive list of the molluscan and other fossil remains found in 

 the gravels and brickearth. 



Professor and Mrs. Hughes have a family of three sons : the 

 eldest is a B.A. of Cambridge, and is studying to become an 

 architect ; the second son goes up next October ; the third is still 

 a schoolboy, but will, if he does not change his mind, take up 

 geology. 



Professor Hughes has always been a keen student of archaeology 

 (as may be seen from his list of published papers), and has served 

 the office of President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. 

 He takes an active part in agricultural organisations, and has for 

 the past two years been President of the Cambriilge and Isle of Ely 

 Chamber of Agriculture. A good hall on the ground floor of the 

 new Museum is allotted to Economic Geology, and a collection 

 illustrative of this branch is being formed after the plan of 

 De la Beche's Museum, now unhappily removed from Jermyn Street. 



In looking back for half a century of our geological life, and 

 recalling the long line of familiar faces, especially of those who in 

 the days of our novitiate occupied the front rank, one is conscious 

 of the changes which the fleeting years have wrought. Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, addressing his friend Professor Hughes at the Geological 

 Society in 1891, recalled the days of their early friendship, now 

 faded so far into the dim past of life, when, as colleagues on the 

 Geological Survey, they attended together the meetings of the 

 Geological Society in Somerset House, taking seats on a back row, 



