Frederick Wollaston Hutton
Frederick Wollaston Hutton (born November 16, 1836 in Gate Burton, Lincolnshire , England, † October 27, 1905 on the ship Rimutaka near Cape Town ) was a British geologist and zoologist .
Hutton became Professor of Biology at Canterbury College ( University of Canterbury ) in New Zealand in 1880 . In 1892 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . From 1893 until his death he was the curator of the Canterbury Museum .
In 1891 he was awarded the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales . Hutton died on the ship Rimutaka while traveling from New Zealand to England . He was buried at sea near Cape Town. The British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott named the Hutton Cliffs on the Antarctic Ross Island in his honor .
Fonts
- 1887: Darwinism
- 1896: Theoretical Explanations of the Distribution of Southern Faunas
- 1899: Darwinism and Lamarckism: Old and New
- 1902: The Lesson of Evolution
- 1902 with James Mackay Drummond : Nature in New Zealand
- 1904: Index Faunae Nova-Zealandiae
- 1904 with James M. Drummond: The Animals of New Zealand
literature
- HN Parton : Hutton, Frederick Wollaston . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , September 1, 2010, accessed August 19, 2012 .
- Alan Mason: Hutton, Frederick Wollaston (1836-1905), geologist and zoologist. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of May 2006
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| SURNAME | Hutton, Frederick Wollaston |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geologist and zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gate Burton, Lincolnshire , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1905 |
| Place of death | on the ship Rimutaka near Cape Town |