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OBITUARY NOTICE 



CAPTAIN HUTTON, F.R.S. 



Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton, f.r.s., p.g.s., 

 c.m.z.s., was at his death one of our oldest surviving Hon. 

 Members, having been elected in 1888; those senior to him 

 are but two, viz. : Sir Joseph Hooker, g.c.s.i., elected in 

 1880, and Sir M. Foster, k.cb., 1887. Captain Hutton 

 was the second son of the Reverend H. F. Hutton, Rector 

 of Spridlington and was born at Gate Burton, Lincolnshire, 

 England, November 16th, 1836, he was educated at South- 

 well Grammar School and the Naval Academy at Gosport. 

 After leaving Gosport he spent three years in the India 

 Mercantile Marine, being over age for the Royal Navy; he 

 then entered the army and served with the 23rd Royal 

 Welsh Fusiliers in the Crimea in 1855-6, later he took part 

 under Sir Colin Campbell in the relief and capture of 

 Lucknow in 1857 and the defeat of the Gwalior mutineers, 

 for which he received the medal and two clasps. On his 

 return home he entered the Staff College, where he studied 

 geology under Prof. Rupert Jones ; his career was a dis- 

 tinguished one, and he passed out as sixth on the list in 

 1860. In 1862 he was gazetted Captain and served as 

 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General at Dublin. 



In 1866 he went out to New Zealand, and in 1871 was 

 appointed Assistant Geologist to the New Zealand Survey, 

 Curator of the Otago Museum in 1873 and Professor of 

 Natural Science in the University of Otago 1887. In 1880 

 he was appointed to the Professorship of Biology at Canter- 

 bury College, Christchurch : in 1893 he resigned the chair 

 to become Curator of the Canterbury Museum. He was 



