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Biography

Hutton was born in Gate Burton, Lincolnshire, England and passed through Southwell Grammar School and the Naval Academy at Gosport, Hampshire. He studied applied science at King's College, London before being commissioned in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and fighting in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq... Vicars Court and the Residence Southwell is a small town in Nottinghamshire, England. ... Grammar school can refer to various types of schools in different English-speaking countries. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore the Senior Service). ... Gosport is a town and district in Hampshire with around 77,000 inhabitants (including Lee-on-the-Solent), situated on the south coast of England. ... Hampshire (abbr. ... Applied science is the exact science of applying knowledge from one or more natural scientific fields to practical problems. ... Kings College London was founded in 1829 and received its royal charter that same year, making it Englands third oldest university institution (predated only by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge). ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Royal Welch Fusiliers was a regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales Division. ... Combatants United Kingdom France Ottoman Empire Kingdom of Sardinia Russian Empire Casualties 17,500 British 90,000 French 35,000 Turkish 2,050 Sardinian killed, wounded and died of disease 256,000 killed, wounded and died of disease The Crimean War lasted from 1854 until 1 April 1856 and was... An engraving titled Sepoy Indian troops dividing the spoils after their mutiny against British rule gives a contemporary view of events from a strictly British perspective. ...

He returned to England in 1860, and continued to study geology at Sandhurst, being elected to the Geological Society of London in the same year. In 1861, he reviewed Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species for The Geologist. Throughout his life, Hutton remained a staunch exponent of Darwin's theories of natural selection, and Darwin himself expressed his appreciation in a letter to Hutton. The Blue Marble: The famous photo of the Earth taken en route to the Moon by Apollo 17s Harrison Schmitt on December 7, 1972. ... New College, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is the British Army officer initial training centre. ... The Geological Society of London is a learned society based in England with the aim of investigating the mineral structure of the Earth. It is the oldest national geological society in the world and the largest in Europe with over 9000 Fellows entitled to the postnominal FGS - over 2000 of... Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who achieved lasting fame by producing considerable evidence that species originated through evolutionary change, at the same time proposing the scientific theory that natural selection is the mechanism by which such change occurs. ... The title page of the 1859 edition of On the Origin of Species. ... Natural selection is the process by which individual organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce. ...

Hutton married Annie Gouger Montgomerie in 1863, and resigned his commission in 1866 in order to travel with his wife and two children to New Zealand, where a four more children would follow. They lived initially in Waikato, where Hutton tried his hand at flax milling, but he soon changed back to geology, joining the Geological Survey of New Zealand in 1866 and becoming Provincial Geologist of Otago in 1874. At the same time, he was made lecturer in geology at the University of Otago and curator of the museum there. Hutton became professor of biology at Canterbury College in 1880, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1892. The following year, he also took on the curatorship of the Canterbury Museum. Towards the end of his life, Hutton was made president of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union and the New Zealand Institute. He was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1891. Waikato is the name of a region in the North Island of New Zealand. ... Binomial name Linum usitatissimum Linnaeus. ... Otago (help· info) is one of the regions of New Zealand and lies in the south-east of the South Island. ... The University of Otago in Dunedin is New Zealands oldest university with over 20,000 student enrolled during 2006. ... This page is about the New Zealand University. ... The Fellowship of the Royal Society was founded in 1660. ... The Canterbury Museum is located in Christchurch, New Zealand. ... Australia The Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union was founded in 1901 to promote the study and conservation of the native bird species of Australia, making it the oldest national birding association of that country. ... The Royal Society of New Zealand was founded in 1851 and is the premier learned society in New Zealand. ... The Clarke Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales (Australia) for distinguished work in the Natural sciences. ... The Royal Society of New South Wales is a learned society based in Sydney, Australia. ... 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Hutton died on the return voyage from England on the 27 October 1905, and was buried at sea off Cape Town, South Africa. He is commemorated in the Hutton Memorial Medal and Research Fund, awarded for scientific works bearing on the zoology, botany or geology of New Zealand. October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... Burial at Sea for two victims of a Japanese submarine attack on the US aircraft carrier Liscome Bay, November 1943 Burial at sea describes the procedure of disposing of human remains in the ocean. ... , City motto: Spes Bona (Latin: Good Hope) Location of the City of Cape Town in Western Cape Province Province Western Cape Mayor Helen Zille Area  - % water 2,499 km² N/A Population  - Total (2004)  - Density Ranked 100th 2,893,251 1,158/km² Established 1652 Time zone SAST (UTC+2... Zoology is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ... Pinguicula grandiflora Botany is the scientific study of plantlife. ...

Hutton's publications

• 1887: Darwinism
• 1896: Theoretical Explanations of the Distribution of Southern Faunas
• 1899: Darwinism and Lamarckism: Old and New
• 1902: The Lesson of Evolution
• 1902: Nature in New Zealand (a popular work co-written with James Drummond)
• 1904: Index Faunae Nova-Zealandiae (a complete list of all animals recorded in New Zealand)
• 1904: The Animals of New Zealand (a popular work co-written with James Drummond)

James Drummond is the name of several notable individuals: James Drummond, 1st Duke of Perth (1648 - 1716) James Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth (1876–1951), British diplomat who was the first secretary-general of the League of Nations James Drummond (botanist) (1784-1863), colonial botanist who worked in the...

References

• Parton, H. N. Hutton, Frederick Wollaston 1836–1905. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, updated 7 July 2005
• Frederick Wollaston Hutton in the 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand