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We regret to announce the death on February 9th of 

 Professor Carey Foster, one of the conductors of this 

 Magazine. For many years previous to 1911, when he 

 was persuaded to allow his name to appear on the wrapper, 

 the Philosophical Magazine was indebted to him for 

 invaluable advice and counsel. For this help, continued 

 until within a few weeks of his death, we wish to record 

 our deep sense of gratitude. 



W. & R. T. Francis. 



GEORGE CAREY FOSTER, 



George Carey Foster was one of the most lovable of men. 

 He was also a man of remarkably sound judgement, so that 

 his opinion, when he would give it, was always welcome ; 

 he had an instinct for discriminating between wise and 

 foolish schemes or policies, and always lent the weight of 

 his influence in what experience showed to be the right 

 direction. 



Originally a student of Chemistry, and of the more 

 chemical side of Physics — his first paper was a purely 

 chemical one — he trained himself to deal accurately with a 

 wide range of physical knowledge, and to apply mathematics 

 to it rather after the German model. 



He was never a fluent lecturer : he thought too carefully 

 over his sentences, and delivered them with a hesitancy 

 that made him difficult to follow ; yet, when taken down, 

 his lectures were a model of cautious exact exposition, — 

 accurate and well-formed, like his hand-writing. 



Phil. Mag. S. 6. Vol. 37. No. 219. March 1919. Z 



