Obituary. George Vernon Hudson, F.R.S.N.Z. (1867–1946). Mr. G. V. Hudson, one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand and for sixty-one years a member, also one of the original Honorary Members of the Wellington Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand, died at his home, “Hillview,” Karori, Wellington, on the 5th April, 1946. With his passing has gone the last remaining link with the old school of naturalists who did so much to firmly establish the natural sciences in New Zealand during the early pioneering days. Born in London on Easter Saturday, 20th April, 1867, G. V. Hudson was the sixth child of Charles Hudson, of London, professional artist and designer of stained-glass windows. George received his early schooling in England; but his father encouraged his interest in natural history and trained him in the fine arts of painting and drawing. At the age of fourteen he left England with his father to settle in New Zealand. They left Gravesend on the 16th June, 1881, in the barque Glenora, and arrived at Wellington on 23rd September. Prior to leaving England George Hudson had already embarked on his entomological career: he had built up a small collection of British insects, published a short paper in The Entomologist in 1880, exhibited a hermaphrodite moth at a meeting of the Royal Entomological Society of London, and been a frequent visitor to the Library of the British Museum. At this early age he also was keenly interested in astronomy, already having observed and recorded an eclipse of the sun and made notes and summaries on the weather. On his arrival in New Zealand he turned his attention to the study of our native insects, and during his long life never lost any available opportunity to enjoy his hobby and further his interests in entomology. Settling first in Nelson, Hudson worked for a while on a farm; but in 1883, at the age of sixteen, he entered the employ of the Post Office in Wellington, where he rose to the position of Chief Clerk, Postal Division, a position from which he retired in 1918. In 1885, Hudson joined the Wellington Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand, or, as it then was called, the Wellington Philosophical Society. He was President of the Society in 1900 and 1901, and, in 1940, in recognition of his services to the Society and to New Zealand science, he was elected one of the first two original Honorary Members of the newly-constituted Wellington Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand. From 1923 until the time of his death Hudson was a member of the Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand, representing, until 1931, the Wellington Philosophical Society, and, from 1932 onward, the Hawke's Bay Branch. In 1938, as a representative of the Royal Society of New Zealand, he was elected a member of the Management Committee of the Dominion Museum, a position held by him at the time of his death, and to which he attended with his usual thoroughness and enthusiasm. Shortly after his arrival in Wellington Hudson moved out into the then “wilderness” of the high hills of Karori, where he built his home overlooking the city of Wellington. In 1893 he married Florence Gillon, of the staff of the Girls' High School in Wellington, and in