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But these geological labours only represent a portion of the 
active work of these first years of Captain Hutton’s Colonial life. 
Immediately on coming here he had commenced to make obser- 
vations on the zoology of the country, and these are embodied 
in numerous papers extending without intermission right through 
the volumes of the Transactions of the N. Z. Institute. His 
earlier articles are chiefly confined to the vertebrate fauna, and 
his strong bias for systematic work is shewn in the zoological 
publications of the Survey Department. Thus in 1871 his 
catalogue, with specific diagnoses of the Birds of New Zealand 
was issued, followed in the next year bya catalogue of the 
Fishes, together with papers in the Transactions on the Bats and 
Lizards. In this year also he contributed a long paper on the 
Chitonidz to the Wellington Philosophical Society; but it was 
not till 1873 that his Catalogue of the Marine Mollusca was pub- 
lished, and just shortly before his catalogue of the Tertiary 
Fossils. Sertularians, Echinodermata, and other groups of 
animals all received more or less attention, and a very excellent 
work was all along being done in the way of making collections 
for transmission to specialists in Europe. 
During the time that Captain Hutton held the position of 
Provincial Geologist of Otago he published a geological map of 
the province, and also, in conjunction with Mr. G. H. F. Ulrich 
(now Professor of Mineralogy and Mining in the University of 
Otago), brought out a work on the Geology of Otago. In this 
standard work he brought up an account of his paleontological 
researches to date. 
On the abolition of the Provinces in 1876 Captain Hutton’s 
office of Provincial Geologist came to an end ; but so strong was 
the feeling in Dunedin and Otago generally to retain his services, 
that he was appointed to the newly-made Chair of Natural 
Science in the University of Otago. After holding this for four 
years, he was appointed to the Professorship of Biology in Can- 
terbury College, which position he still holds. While in Dunedin 
he published an excellent little manual for students, entitled 
“Zoological Exercises,” which has not been as extensively 
adopted as it deserves to be. 
Throughout New Zealand and the Australian Colonies, Pro- 
fessor Hutton is as celebrated for his zoological as for his 
geological researches. It is chiefly as a systematist that he has 
made his name so well known, but he has by no means confined 
himself to this class of work, having shewn remarkable power of 
generalization in his examination of the origin of the fauna and 
flora of these islands. His first paper on this subject was read 
to the Wellington Philosophical Society in September, 1872 
(see Trans. N. Z. Inst., Vol. V., p. 227), and displayed the critical 
power of the author in bringing to bear on his subject informa- 
tion from so many and such various sources. The conclusions 
arrived at in that paper have been subsequently modified toa 
very considerable extent in the light of our increased knowledge 
of the regions—terrestrial and submarine—surrounding New 
