Person

Hutton, Frederick Wollaston (1836 - 1905)

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Born
16 November 1836
Gate Burton, Lincolnshire, England
Died
27 October 1905
At sea
Occupation
Zoologist, Geologist and Ornithologist

Summary

Frederick Hutton was Professor of Biology, Canterbury College, Christchurch from 1880. He made major contributions to both geology and zoology.

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Born Lincolnshire, 1836. Died at sea, 27 October 1905. Educated King's College, London. Commissioned, 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers 1855-66, saw active service in the Crimea and the Indian Mutiny; arrived New Zealand 1866; Geological Survey of New Zealand 1866-71; Assistant Geologist, Wellington 1871-73; Provincial Geologist of Otago 1874-76; Professor of Natural Science, Otago University, with charge of the Otago Museum 1876-80; Professor of Biology, Canterbury College, Christchurch from 1880. Published Index Faunae Nova-Zealandiae (1904), a complete list, with references, of all animals hitherto recorded from New Zealand, Darwinism and Lamarckism, The Lesson of Evolution and a popular work with James Drummond, Animals of New Zealand. Fellow, Royal Society; President, Australasian Ornithologists Union 1903-05.

Chronology

1860 - 1905
Award - Fellow, Geological Society of London
1866
Career event - Joined the Geological Survey of New Zealand
1866
Life event - Migrated to New Zealand
1873 - 1876
Career event - Provincial Geologist, Otago, New Zealand
1880
Career event - Appointed Professor of Biology, Canterbury College, New Zealand
1888 -
Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1891
Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
1892
Award - Fellow, Royal Society, London
1900 - 1902
Career position - President, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1903 - 1905
Career position - President, Australasian Ornithologists' Union
1904 - 1905
Career position - President, New Zealand Institute

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Books

  • Hutton, F. W., Index faunae novae zealandiae (London: Dulau & Co., 1904), 372 pp. Details
  • Hutton, Frederick Wollaston, Catalogue of the birds of New Zealand with diagnoses of the species (Wellington, N.Z.: Geological Survey of New Zealand, 1871), 85 pp. Details
  • Hutton, Frederick Wollaston, Fishes of New Zealand, catalogue with diagnoses of the species (Wellington, N.Z.: Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department, 1872), 133 pp. Details
  • Hutton, Frederick Wollaston, Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species (Wellington, N.Z.: Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department, 1873), 116 pp. Details
  • Hutton, Frederick Wollaston, Darwinism and Lamarckism, old and new: four lectures (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1899), 231 pp. Details
  • Mildenhall, E.; Burns, Rowan; and Nathan, Simon, Transcriptions of Selected Letters From Frederick Wollaston Hutton to James Hector and Julius Haast (Lower Hutt (N.Z): Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2012), 141 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Mason, Alan, 'Frederick Wollaston Hutton, 1836-1905' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details

Journal Articles

  • Anon, 'Biographical notices. II - Frederick Wollaston Hutton', New Zealand journal of science, 2 (7) (1885), 301-6. Details
  • Crane, Rosi, 'Rivalry and cooperation: Julius von Haast's influence on the Otago Museum', Canterbury Museum bulletin, 11 (2023), 47-60. https://cms.canterburymuseum.com/assets/Bulletin-Crane.pdf?v=1678934066. Details
  • Hutton, F. W., 'On the rocks of the Hauraki Gold-fields', Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1 (1889), 245-274, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15813335. Details
  • Hutton, Frederick Wollaston, 'Theoretical explanations of of distribution of southern faunas', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 21 (1896), 36-47. Details

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See also

  • Crane, Rosi, 'What were they thinking? Tracing evolution in the Otago Museum, 1868 - 1936', Museum history journal, 13 (1) (2020), 61-79, https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2020.1759005. Details
  • Miskelly, C. M., 'Colonial ornithology in New Zealand - the legacy of the New Zealand Institute', Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 47 (3) (2017), 244-53. Details
  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details

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