Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton, F.R.S., Curator of the Canterbury Museum, was born at Gateburton, Lincolnshire, in 1836, and educated at Southwell and Gosport Naval Academy. After three or four years at sea, he joined the 73rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers in 1855 as ensign, and served till 1866, when, he came to Auckland per ship “Queen of the North.” After being some time on a flax farm in the Waikato, Captain Hutton joined the geological survey staff in Wellington, and became provincial geologist in Otago in 1874. Six years later he was appointed professor of biology at Canterbury College, from which he retired in 1892 to take up his present position. Captain Hutton is also lecturer on geology at the College. In 1860 he became a Fellow of the Geological Society, and in 1892 of the Royal Society. He was married in 1861 to a daughter of Mr. Montgomerie, an officer in the East India Company's service, and has three sons and three daughters, besides ten grand-children.