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 an English geologist and zoologist.

Hutton in 1880 Professor of Biology at Canterbury College ( University of Canterbury ) in New Zealand. In 1892 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1891 he was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales. Hutton died during the trip from New Zealand to England on the ship Rimutaka. He was buried near Cape Town at sea.

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