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Angus Finlay Hutton
Angus Finlay Hutton (born 1928) is a British naturalist born in India. Working in the High Wavy range, he discovered a species of pit viper that is now named after him as Hutton's pit viper (''Tropidolaemus huttoni''). He also collected a species of bat that was later named as Salim Ali's fruit bat (''Latidens salimali'') after Indian ornithologist Salim Ali. Hutton is the oldest living member of the Bombay Natural History Society. He helped set up butterfly gardens in Southeast Asia before settling in Queensland, Australia.
==Life and work==
Hutton was born in Mysore on 8 April 1928. His father had served in World War I and came to South India to work with a large British Tea Estate in 1921. He was sent back to Britain at the age of eight but returned to India when the Second World War broke out. He then studied at a number of schools, completing his matriculation in 1944 from Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore. He then went to Lawrence Memorial Royal Military College in Ooty. At 16 he joined the Southern Provinces Mounted Rifles (AFI Cavalry) and because of his knowledge of Tamil was placed in the South Indian Labour Units with the Madras Sappers & Miners. After the war he joined the tea plantations at Karamallai Estate working under C.R.T. Congreve. He later moved to the High Wavy Mountains to work as an assistant with Tea Estates India Ltd. which was owned by Brooke Bonds. After meeting Salim Ali who was then conducting a bird survey, he joined the Bombay Natural History Society on 29 November 1945 and is the oldest living member and only "Diamond" member. He moved to Uganda in 1952, moving to Kenya and Papua New Guinea before settling in Queensland. He set up a butterfly farming venture in Papua New Guinea.
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