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to the County Hospital tit York. As the years passed, and Ins 

 leisure increased, he gave more time to his favourite geoh)gic and 

 mountaineering trips, and particularly to the phenomena of vol- 

 eauoes, of which he succeeded in getting many striking ])hoto- 

 graphs. In 1903 he brought oat a volume, ' Volcanic Studies,' 

 in which he mentions that for eighteen years he had spent the 

 greater part of his holidays in exploring volcanic regions, including 

 Vesuvius, Etna, the Lipari Islands, Auvergne (many times), the 

 Eife], the Canary Islands, and Iceland; iu 1900 the Grand Canon 

 of Colorado and the Yellowstone Park. 



In 1902 he visited the Soufriere and Mont Pelee in Guada- 

 loupe as the accredited representarive of the Royal Society with 

 Dr. Elett, and in later years he examined the voh-anoes of Guate- 

 mala and Mexico, Hawaii, New Zealand, and was in South Africa 

 in 1905 with the Britisa Association, as far as the Victoria Ealls 

 of the Zambesi. 



Our former Zoologicnl Secretary, Walter Percy Sladen, married 

 his sister Constance, and after the death of both tlie Percy Sladen 

 Trust was constituted upon a bs^quest from Mrs. Sladen, Dr. Tem- 

 pest Anderson being one of the Trustees until his death. In 

 ]912 he started for a long journey to Java, Krakatoa, and the 

 Phihppines, and when half-way home, he succumbed to an attack 

 of enteric fever on 26th August, 1913, and was buried at Suez. 

 He was never nuirried. 



As Secretary and afterwards President of the Yorkshire Philo- 

 sophical Society, he was a moving spirit of that body, and 

 presented to it a fine lecture-theatre, now known as the Tempest 

 Anderson Hall, and when it was formally opened in June 1912, 

 he was presented with his portrait painted by William Orpen, 

 A.R.A., as a mark of the vSociety's appreciation of the work he 

 had accomplished for it. When the British Association met at 

 York in 1906, he acted as host every afternoon at the tea-tables 

 in the beautiful grounds of St. Mary's Abbey, in which the 

 Society has its rooms. 



He left various bequests to relatives and friends, and directed 

 that of the residue, about =£75,000, two-thirds should go to the 

 Y^orkshire Philosophical Society and one- third to the Sladen 

 Trustees, who are to add experimental physiology, pathology, and 

 therapeutics to the list of subjects for their grants. 



He was elected Fellow of the Linuean Society 15th March, 

 1906, and belonged also to the Geological and Royal Geographical 

 Societies ; iu all three Societies he had served as Councillor. 



[B. D. J.] 



Carl Chuk, who died at Leipzig on the 11th April, 1914, was 

 born at Hochst am Main on 1st October, 1852. He studied at 

 Gottingen and at Leipzig, where he Avas a pupil of the famous 

 zoologist, Rudolf Leuckart, whose assistant he became in 1878. 

 In 1883 he was appointed professor of Zoology in Konigsberg, 

 and in 1891 he went to Breslau, whence he was called, on the 



