director of the meteorological and weather department of the New Zealand Institute, and of the colonial museum and the botanical gardens at Wellington. He resided in Wellington until his retirement in 1903.
During this service of forty-two years Hector gained a world-wide reputation as a naturalist and geologist. His numerous official reports included several on the coal-deposits of New Zealand and on the geological structure and other economic deposits of various districts. His first sketch map of the geology of the islands was published in 1869, and later editions, embodying the work of F. von Hochstetter, Julius von Haast, and others, in 1873 and 1885. A table of the fossiliferous formations of New Zealand accompanied his reports for 1879-1880 (1881). He edited the 'Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute' for 1869-76. To scientific societies and journals in England as well as in New Zealand he communicated many and important observations on such subjects as the volcanic and earthquake phenomena; the thermal and mineral springs; the eruption of Tarawera in 1886; the rock-basins; the glacial phenomena; the meteorology; recent and fossil fauna and flora, notably fishes, reptiles, birds and cetacea; and the Moas. He also obtained from tertiary strata in Nelson the remains of a gigantic penguin described by Huxley under the name of Palaeeudyptes antarcticus.
He was appointed C.M.G. in 1875 and K.C.M.G. in 1887, and received the order of the Golden Cross from the German emperor in 1874.
He was elected F.R.S. Edinburgh in 1861, and F.R.S. London in 1866, and also a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London. The Lyell medal was awarded to him in 1876 by the Geological Society, and the founder's gold medal in 1891 by the Royal Geographical Society. He was president of the Wellington Philosophical Society in 1873-74, and president of the Australasian Association for the advancement of science in 1891. In his later years he was chancellor of the New Zealand University. He died at Wellington, N.Z., on 5 Nov. 1907.
Hector married in 1868 Maria Georgiana, daughter of Sir David Monro [q. v.], speaker of the house of representatives in New Zealand.
His published works include: 1. 'Handbook of New Zealand,' 1879; 4th edit. 1886. 2. 'Outlines of New Zealand Geology,' 1886 (with geological map, 1885).
[The Times, 7 Nov. 1907; obituary by Prof. J. W. Gregory in Nature, 14 Nov. 1907; see also Geology of Now Zealand, by Prof. James Park, 1910 (bibliography).]
HELLMUTH, ISAAC (1817–1901), bishop of Huron, born of Hebrew parents near Warsaw, Poland, on 14 Dec. 1817, attended Rabbinical schools, and at the age of sixteen passed to the University of Breslau, where he convinced himself of the truths of Christianity. Coming to England in 1841, he was received into the Church of England at Liverpool. Trained for holy orders by Hugh McNeile [q. v.] and James Haldane Stewart, Liverpool clergymen of strong evangelical views, Hellmuth emigrated to Canada in 1844, bearing letters to George Jehoshaphat Mountain [q. v.], bishop of Quebec, from Archbishop Sumner of Canterbury, and other eminent men. Bishop Mountain ordained him deacon and priest in 1846 and appointed him to be professor of Hebrew and Rabbinical literature at Bishop's College, Lennoxville, of which he soon became also vice-principal. At the same time he was made rector of St. Peter's church, in the neighbouring town of Sherbrooke, then the chief centre of English settlement in the province of Lower Canada. His learning and zeal were widely recognised. He received the degree of D.D. from Lambeth in 1853 and from Lennoxville University in 1854, as well as the degree of D.C.L. from Trinity College, Toronto, in the latter year. He afterwards resigned his posts in the province of Quebec to become superintendent of the Colonial and Continental Church Society in British North America. In this capacity he was very successful. He joined Dr. Cronyn, bishop of Huron, in an endeavour to set up in the diocese an evangelical theological college by way of opposition to Trinity College, Toronto. During a visit to England in 1861 Hellmuth collected a sum sufficient to endow the new Huron college in the diocese. It was established in London, Ontario, and when it was opened in 1863 Hellmuth became first principal and professor of divinity. He was also appointed archdeacon of Huron, dean of Huron, and rector of St. Paul's cathedral. His continued interest in education led him to institute at London, Ontario, in 1865 the Hellmuth Boys' College and in 1869 Hellmuth Ladies' College.
On 19 July 1871 Helhnuth was made coadjutor bishop of Huron to Dr. Cronyn, with the title of bishop of Norfolk, and on Cronyn's death in September
