478 Obituary — Tempest Anderson. 



Elements of the Orbit of a Satellite revolving about a Tidally 

 Distorted Planet" (op. cit., 1880). 



Another of his memoirs may be appropriately recalled, bearing upon 

 the same subject as that recently dealt vpith by Colonel Burrard 

 (Geol. Mag., September, 1913, pp. 385-8) and the Rev. 0. Fisher: 

 " On the Stresses caused in the Interior of the Earth by the Weight 

 of Continents and Mountains" (op. cit., 1882). 



In 1877 George Darwin became acquainted with Lord Kelvin, who 

 from that time took a warm interest in all his work and greatly 

 influenced his subsequent researches. 



In 1884 he married Maud, daughter of Charles du Puy, of 

 Philadelphia, and leaves two sons and two daughters. His eldest 

 son, Charles, was a scholar of Trinity in 1905, and graduated as 

 Fourth Wrangler in Mathematics in 1909. 



Sir George delivered a course of lectures at Boston, U.S., in 1897 

 under the title of " The Tides ", which was subsequently printed 

 as a popular volume entitled The Tides and Kindred Phenomena of the 

 Solar System (1898). 



He was a Vice-President of the International Geodetic Association, 

 a member of the Meteorological and Solar Physics Committees, Doctor 

 of nine Universities, Foreign Honorary Member of twenty Societies 

 and Academies, and Foreign Correspondent of twelve others. He 

 served as a member of Council of the Royal Society for seven 

 years, and as Yice-President for two years, and was President of the 

 Cambridge Philosophical Society and Vice-President of the Astro- 

 nomical Society. 



Sir George Darwin was also the recipient of the Royal Astronomical 

 Gold Medal in 1892, Royal Medal, Royal Society, in 1884, and the 

 Copley Medal in 1911, and several others. 



TEMPEST ANDERSON, M.D., D.Sc, F.G.S. 

 Born 1846. Died August 26, 1913. 



The death is announced from enteric fever whilst on his voyage 

 home from the Philippine Islands of Dr. Tempest Anderson, of York. 

 The son of the late Mr. William C. Anderson, M.R.C.S., a member 

 of an old and well-known Yorkshire family, Dr. Tempest Anderson 

 was born at York in 1846. He was educated at St. Peter's School, 

 York, and had a distinguished student's career at University College, 

 London. He was a well-known scientist. As President of the 

 Yorkshire Philosophical Society he spent a great deal of time and much 

 money in its interests, and it was through his influence that a new 

 lecture hall was recently added to the York Museum. Dr. Anderson's 

 special branch of study was volcanic phenomena, and this subject, 

 illustrated by photographs, he brought on many occasions before the 

 British Association. He was author of Volcanic Studies in 3lany 

 Lands, 1903 (see review by W. H. Hudleston, Geol. Mag., 1903, 

 p. 160). After the terrible eruption in May, 1902, of the Soufriere, 

 in St. Vincent, one of the West India Islands, he andDr. J.S. Flett were 

 commissioned by the Royal Society to investigate the matter. Their 

 joint report was published in the Philosophical Tra7isactions for 1903. 

 Dr. Anderson revisited the West Indies in 1907, and gave an account 



