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he obtained the appointment as Astronomer Royal at the Cape 

 Observatory, which he held till, in 1878, he was appointed 

 Radcliffe Observer at Oxford. 



In the positions which Mr. Stone held he devoted himself 

 assiduously to problems of the astronomy of position, and espe- 

 cially to meridian observations. As evidence of his industry, the 

 Royal Society Catalogue of Sciejitific Papers contains the titles of 

 92 of his papers antecedent to 1883. 



It is not here possible to discuss his work at length ; fuller 

 notices will be found in the Motithly Notices of the Royal Astro?io- 

 mical Society (vol. 58, p. 143), and in the Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society (vol. 62, p. x.). 



Mr. Stone was elected an honorary member of the Society on 

 April 17th, 1894. 



Mr. Stone's death took place, from cardiac failure during an 

 attack of pneumonia, on May 9th, 1897. Only a week previously, 

 during a visit to North Wales to fish (a pursuit of which he had 

 always been very fond), his boat had been upset, and, to avoid a 

 chill, he rowed quickly a distance of two miles to his hotel. It 

 was supposed that he unfortunately overstrained his heart, and 

 that the accident was the cause of his fatal illness. 



On the day before his death he was at the Observatory, 

 making arrangements for trial observations, preparatory to 

 observing the total solar eclipse in India in 1898. 



The Ven. George Henry Greville Anson, M.A., third 

 son of General Sir William Anson, was born on July 19, 1820. 

 he received his education at Eton, Charterhouse, and at 

 Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1843. He was 

 ordained the same year, and appointed to a curacy at Leeds 

 Parish Church under his future father-in-law. Dr. Hook. Here 

 he remained for three years, when he was nominated by his 

 eldest brother, the late Sir J. W. H. Anson, to the incumbency 

 of St. James's, Birch-in-Rusholme, which he held until his death. 

 In 1848 he was appointed examining chaplain to Dr. Prince Lee, 

 then Bishop of Manchester, and, on Bishop Eraser's nomination 



