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transferred his allegiance to geology, between which and his pro- 

 fession as a consulting surgeon his energies were thenceforth to be 

 divided. Had he continued his anatomical studies he would 

 without doubt have attained to the foremost rank among physio- 

 logical anatomists. 



During the quarter of a century which followed his first con- 

 tributions to geological science, Mr. Hulke found leisure to apply 

 himself to research in this field, notwithstanding his constantly 

 increasing practice. He did so to so good a purpose that he became 

 a paleontologist of no ordinary merit. His knowledge of compara- 

 tive anatomy, and especially of osteology, enabled him rapidly to 

 grasp the meaning of structures presented by the remains of fossil 

 vertebrates ; and this, combined with a naturally keen perception 

 and a rigid adherence to facts, soon caused his opinion on palaeonto- 

 logical matters to be sought, and held in the highest estimation. 



It was the fossil Reptilia which more especially occupied Hulke's 

 attention, and his numerous papers on their osteology are a monu- 

 ment to his industry. Many of the fossils which he described 

 were, in part at least, freed from the matrix by his own facile 

 chisel; and in this mechanical work, as he himself has said, he 

 often found relaxation when his mind was overwrought by profes- 

 sional anxieties. 



Mr. Hulke's well-earned vacations were often spent at localities 

 of geological interest, more especially with a view to working out 

 the fossils which might be obtained. For this purpose he paid 

 frequent visits to Brook, in the Isle of Wight, whence have come 

 many specimens of Wealden Dinosauria ; near here also, at Brixton, 

 was preserved the unique collection of these Wealden reptiles, made 

 by the Rev. W. Fox. For many years Mr. Hulke was the only 

 palaeontologist who had free access to this collection ; and he did 

 much good work in bringing to light its hidden treasures, which 

 would otherwise have remained almost unknown until after the 

 death of the owner, when they were acquired by purchase for the 

 British Museum. 



In the year 1868, Mr. Hulke was elected a Fellow of the Geological 

 Society of London, and from that time onwards the pages of the 

 ' Quarterly Journal' of that Society were frequently enriched by his 

 writings. No fewer than six of his papers were published in the 

 two volumes which followed the year of his election, and these, with 

 one exception, were descriptions of Saurian remains from the Kim- 

 meridge Clay of Dorset. Several other papers on reptiles from the- 



