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vi requirements of New Zealand students. In Christchurch he continued to publish papers on various branches of New Zealand zoology, but these were varied with others on various geological questions, and for some time, owing to the wants of his students, he devoted considerable attention to botany. Later on he had temporary charge of the Canterbury Museum after the death of Sir Julius von Haast, and in 1893 he succeeded Mr. H. O. Forbes as Curator, and acted also as lecturer on geology—for this purpose resigning the professorship of biology.

About three years ago, feeling the strain of lecturing too much for him, he gave up his lectureship, but continued as Curator of the Museum. In March, 1905, he left for England on leave of absence, but almost immediately after his arrival there he had a second attack of the severe illness from which he had suffered about two years before, and though he recovered to some extent he did not survive to reach New Zealand, but died during the return voyage.

Captain Hutton naturally took a large share in the work of tne various scientific societies of New Zealand and Australia. He was successively a member of the Institutes at Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, and Christchurch, and served several times as Secretary, Treasurer, or President in the two last named. He was also an honorary member of the Linnæan Society of New South Wales, Fellow of the Zoological and Geological Societies, and member and President of the Australasian Ornithological Union. In the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science he served as General Secretary for the Christchurch meeting in 1891, President of Section C (Geology) in 18S0 and 1898, and President of the Association at the Hobart meeting in 1902. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1892, and in 1904, after the reconstitution of the New Zealand Institute, he was unanimously elected its first President.

Of Captain Hutton's work on the geology and zoology of New Zealand some mention has been already made. Naturally a great part of his time was devoted to systematic work, and many papers dealing with practically all classes of animals will be found in the "Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," and in the scientific journals of Australia and Europe. To the birds he devoted special attention, and his important paper on the "Moas of New Zealand" (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxiv) requires special mention. He also gave much time to the study of the Mollusca, and in addition to many papers in the Transactions published several catalogues of them, the most important of them being his "Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca," issued separately in 1880, and in the same way he catalogued many of the different groups of insects. His systematic work was summed up and brought so far as possible to a conclusion in the "James Drummond deserve mention—viz., "Nature in New Zealand" and "The Animals of New Zealand," the latter being a beautifully illustrated account of the air-breathing vertebrates of New Zealand.

But Captain Hutton was far more than a systematist, and as far back as 1873 he dealt with the origin of the fauna and flora of New Zealand in a paper "On the Geographical Relations of the New Zealand Fauna" (Trans. N.Z. Inst., v, p. 227), and he returned to the subject again in 1884 and 1885, and a concise and judicial summing-up of our knowledge of the subject will be found in the introduction to the "Index Faunæ Novæ-Zealandiæ." Of the various explanations offered by him