 Frederick Wollaston Hutton, formerly the Otago Provincial Geologist, was a lecturer in both Zoology and Geology at the University of Otago, and was the Otago Museum Curator from 1873-79.Hutton supervised the design of the original building on the Great King Street site and began to assemble a significant natural history collection.His successor, Thomas Jeffery Parker, was an outstanding researcher and one of New Zealand's greatest biologists.