Vol. II., No. 7, JANUARY, 1885. 
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I]1—FREDERICK WOLLASTON HUTTON. 
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Captain F, W. Hutton, or, as he is now better known, Pro- 
‘fessor Hutton, was born at Gate Burton, in Lincolnshire, Eng- 
land, of which parish his father, the Rev. H. F. Hutton, was 
rector, in November, 1836. His school education was com- 
menced at Southweil Grammar School, from whence he went 
to the Royal Naval Academy at Gosport, with the object 
of entering the Navy. Failing, however, to obtain a nomination 
before the age of 14, and being still bent on going to sea, he be- 
came in 1851 a midshipman in the “ Alfred,’ one of Messrs. 
Green and Co.’s ships, trading to Calcutta. Whatever anticipa- 
tions such a life may have held out to a young and vigorous 
spirit, the reality appears to have proved less fascinating, and 
seeing no career open for him in this direction, young Hutton 
left the sea, and settled down for a while to study in King’s 
College, London. But unsettled times were at hand, officers and 
soldiers were in demand, and the quiet of a university life was 
exchanged in 1855 for a commission in the 23rd Royal Welsh 
Fusiliers. At the close of the same year he went out to the 
Crimea, in time to see the end of the war. But hardly were 
affairs settled in the Black Sea when the Indian Mutiny broke 
out, and to India Lieutenant Hutton went, serving there from 
1857 to 1859. He was present at the relief of Lucknow under 
Sir Colin Campbell, and in many other engagements, for which 
he received a medal and clasps. 
_ During these years of active service he had not neglected to 
cultivate his observational faculties, his attention being chiefly 
directed to geology, a science which, together with mineralogy, 
he had studied under the late Professor Tennant, at King’s Col- 
lege. In 1860, after his return to England, he entered the Staff 
College at Sandhurst, and in the same year was elected a Fellow 
of the Geological Society of London. During his residence at 
Sandhurst he increased his practical knowledge of the science 
by accompanying the officers of the Geological Survey over 
parts of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. In 1863 he was 
appointed Brigade-Major at the Curragh, under the Hon. Sir 
Alex. Gordon ; and in the following year was placed on the 
Quarter-Master General’s staff in Dublin by Sir G. Brown, then 
- Commander-in-Chief in Ireland. 
Before this period he had commenced his contributions to 
scientific literature with a review on the “Origin of Species,” 
published in the “Geologist” of April and May, 1861, and a lec- 
ture on “ The use of Geology to Military Officers” to the United 
Service Institution, which appeared in its Journal for 1862, In 
