PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12643, 2 November 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The Auckland Board of Education has appointed Mr. Herbert A. E. Milnes, A.C., house tutor and assistant master^ of method of the Borough. Road Training College, England, Principal of tho Auckland Training College. The late Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S., who died on board the steamer Rimutaka just before the vessel reached Capetown, was president of the New Zealand Institute and Curator of the Christchurch Museum. He was born in Lincolnshire in 1836, and educated at Southwell and the Royal Naval Academy, Gosport. Failing to get an appointment in the navy, he entered the merchant service In 1851, but afterwards studied civil engineering. In 1855 he entered the Royal Welsh Fusi'ieers, and went to the Crimea. He served also in China, in India through the Mutiny, at Malta and in Ireland. In 1865 Captain Hutton came to New Zealand, and^was appointed by the Provincial Government of Auckland to report upon certain gold and coalfields. Subsequently he reported upon the defences of the New Zealand harbours. Capiain Hutton was .successively Assistant Geologist to the"Geological Survery, teacher of Natural Science in Wellington College, and in 1873 Provincial Geologist, of Otagol In 1877 ho was made Professor of Natural Science in the University of Otago, and in 1879 Professor of Biology at Canterbury College, afterwards becoming Curator at the Christchurch Museum. He wrote several books, including a "Class Book of Elementary Geology," and "Studies in Biology for New Zealand Students."