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however, interfered with his scientific engagements, and he again took up 

 a residence in town at 8, Stanhope Gardens, South Kensington. 



In 1890, he married Miss Eose Benson, second daughter of the late 

 William Hey wood Benson, Esq., of Littlethorpe, near Papon. 



Early in 1895, Mr. Hudleston, accompanied by his wife and his friend, 

 Prof. J. F. Blake, F.G.S., left London for Bombay. After leaving Prof. Blake 

 duly installed as Organising Curator of the Museum at Baroda, to which he 

 had just been appointed, Mr. Hudleston journeyed onwards towards the 

 north-west frontier of India. The geological results of this expedition are 

 embodied in " Notes on Indian Geology," read before the Geologists' Associa- 

 tion in December, 1895 (see ' Proc. Geol. Assoc.,' vol. 14, p. 226, 1896). 



He presided over or took part in the Councils of numerous scientific 

 societies. He was elected, in 1889, President of the Devonshire Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, and the 

 Malton Field Naturalists' Society ; and had been for years a "Vice-President 

 of the Dorset Natural History Field Club. He also served as a Member of 

 Council of the Eoyal Geographical Society, and as President of the Geological 

 Section of the British Association at Bristol in 1898. 



In 1897, Mr. Hudleston was awarded the highest honour which the Council 

 of the Geological Society could bestow, namely, the " Wollaston Gold Medal," 

 in recognition of his valuable contributions to our knowledge, including 

 chemical, mineralogical, palasontological, and stratigraphical geology. Special 

 reference was made by the President, Dr. Henry Hicks, F.Pt.S., to his mono- 

 graph on " The Inferior Oolite Gasteropoda," contained in the volumes of 

 the Paleeontographical Society, which, with the services of four collectors in 

 the field and in cleaning, developing, etc., occupied a period of over twenty 

 years, the descriptions filling 514 quarto pages of letterpress and 44 quarto 

 plates of figures. This fine collection of types has, since the death of 

 Mr. Hudleston, been transferred, as a gift, to the Sedgwick Memorial 

 Museum, Cambridge. 



Two later papers deserve special mention, namely, the investigation of the 

 structure of " Creechbarrow in Purbeck " (' Geol. Mag.,' 1902 — 3), and that 

 " On the Origin of the Marine (Halolimnic) Fauna of Lake Tanganyika " 

 (' Geol. Mag./ 1904). 



In his earlier years, before he became known as a geologist, he took a keen 

 interest in ornithology, and was instrumental in founding, in 1858, in con- 

 junction with the late Prof. Alfred Newton, of Cambridge, Mr. John 

 Wolley, and others, the British Ornithologists' Union ; and so lately as 

 December 9, 1908, they commemorated the Society's fiftieth anniversary. 

 To mark the occasion, the Society presented a gold medal to each of the four 

 surviving original members, of whom Mr. Hudleston was one. 



In connection with the Armstrong College, Newcastle (in the University of 

 Durham), Mr. Hudleston provided the site and advanced capital for erecting 

 a Marine Biological Laboratory at Cullercoats, Northumberland, to be named 

 the " Dove Laboratory " (after a great ancestor of his family, Eleanor Dove)- 



