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Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased. 



It was erected and equipped at a cost of £4000, and was opened in July, 

 1908, by the Duke of Northumberland. The building is suitably provided 

 with a fine aquarium with numerous tanks, and a large room on the ground 

 floor where experiments on pisciculture may be conducted under improved 

 conditions. It has, in addition, a library, a lecture room, workrooms, etc. 

 The Director is Prof. Meek, M.Sc, uuder whose direction the entire equip- 

 ment of the building was carried out. 



Mr. Hudleston was a Justice of the Peace for the West Eiding of York- 

 shire and for East Dorset. He purchased the East Stoke Estate in 1897, for 

 the sake of the shooting, having all his life been a keen sportsman. His latter 

 years were divided between West Holme, Wareham, and his town residence, 

 8, Stanhope Gardens. He died at West Holme, January 29, 1909, in his 

 eighty-first year. 



Mr. Hudleston's life was marked by untiring energy, directed with 

 a steady purpose throughout. As a man of science, may be mentioned the 

 numerous offices he held in connection with the Geological Society, the 

 Geologists' Association, and many other bodies. No fewer than 58 memoirs 

 and papers, extending over a period of 32 years, attest to his energy and 

 ability. 



As an ornithologist and a traveller he accomplished much. During his 

 sojourn in the East he acquired a fluent knowledge of modern Greek as well 

 as Arabic. As a magistrate and a landed proprietor he was always earnestly 

 desirous to fulfil his duties ; while as a sportsman, both with gun and rod, he 

 exhibited the same keenness as with his geological hammer or in his chemical 

 laboratory and museum. 



For many years Wilfrid Hudleston lived much alone, having but a small 

 number of intimate friends : Prof. Morris, F. G. Hilton Price, Henry 

 Woodward, H. W. Monckton, and some few others. Hence the social side 

 of his life was never fully developed. But his earliest ornithological 

 friendships for Prof. Alfred Newton, John Wolley, O. Salvin, Canon Tristram, 

 and J. E. Law remained the strongest and warmest throughout his life, and 

 were only separated by death and as he drifted apart from them in his later 

 geological pursuits. 



H. W. 



