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being transferred in 1873 to Dunedin, as Provincial Geologist of 

 Otago, and Curator of the Museum there. Subsequently he became 

 Professor of Natural Science in the Otago University; and in 1890 

 he moved to Christchurch, on being appointed Professor of Biology 

 and Geology in the Canterbury College of the University of New 

 Zealand. He relinquished that post in 1893, to take up the 

 position of Curator of the Christchurch Museum, which he held 

 until his death. His knowledge of the country, it will be seen, was 

 very wide, and not less so was the range of his numerous scientific 

 writings. Besides geology, these deal with zoological, botanical, 

 and ethnological subjects ; and it is surprising to note in how 

 many branches of science he was interested, on most of which he 

 wrote with acknowledged authority. The great majority of his 

 papers appeared in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 

 of which body he was elected President in 1904, but he also 

 contributed to other periodicals, both in the colonies and 

 in this country, particularly to the ' Geological Magazine ' and 

 the ' Ibis/ the study of birds having been the subject which 

 interested him most next to geology. Many of his geological 

 writings were on questions of local stratigraphy, but he also 

 dealt with subjects of more general interest, such as mountain- 

 formation and glaciation. To our own Quarterly Journal he 

 contributed no less than eight papers : the first on ' 2s ga Tutura. 

 an Extinct Volcano,' appearing in the volume for 1869, followed 

 by others in 1873, 1885, 1887, 1888, and 1893. Of these it will be 

 sufficient to specify the ' Synopsis of the Younger Formations of 

 New Zealand ' in vol. xxix, the very useful ' Sketch of the Geology 

 of New Zealand ' in vol. xli, and his account of * The Eruption of 

 Mount Tarawera ' in vol. xliii. The latter was the result of a 

 survey of the district affected by the great eruption which destroyed 

 the celebrated terraces of Rotomahana, undertaken within a few 

 weeks of the outbreak, no doubt at some personal risk. In his 

 geological writings Hutton was somewhat of a controversialist, and 

 his interpretations were not always accepted by his brother- 

 geologists in New Zealand ; but he was always regarded as an 

 authority on the questions that he discussed, and, where he differed 

 from others, he was invariably ready to acknowledge that they might 

 after all be right. 



He was elected a Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society 

 in 1872, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1892, and in 1901 

 he was President of the Australasian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. [R. S. H.] 



