Obituaries. 
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geologist of sound knowledge and judgment. He made special investiga- 
tion of the Lothians coalfield and district, and of other important coalfields 
in the Lowlands of Scotland. In 1906 he was awarded the Murchison 
Medal of the Geological Society of London. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1916, 
and received the same year the Honorary Degree of LL.D. from St 
Andrews. In the succeeding August, when crossing the railway line near 
Manuel, he misjudged the speed of a train that was being shunted, and 
was run over, sustaining serious injuries. He lingered for a few days in 
the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and died on August 27, 1916. 
John Cook, M.A., LL.D., was a distinguished graduate of Aberdeen 
University, where for many years he acted as Assistant to the Professor 
of Natural Philosophy. After occupying for a few years the post of 
Mathematical Master in the High School of Arbroath, he proceeded to 
India in 1877 as Principal of the Doveton College, Madras. Five years 
later he was appointed Principal of the Mysore Central College at 
Bangalore, and in this position he devoted twenty-five years of his life to 
the development of the higher education in the Mysore provinces. He was 
author of a number of scientific text- books, which are widely used in the 
schools and colleges of South India, and he was also for a number of years 
in control of the Mysore Meteorological Department. After retiring from 
his Indian work he settled in Edinburgh, where he died December 30, 1915. 
He was elected a Fellow of our Society in 1894. 
Charles A. Cooper, LL.D., for nearly thirty years editor of the 
Scotsman, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 
1891. His career as a journalist was steady and sure as he passed from 
Hull to London, and finally settled in Edinburgh in 1868. He died at 
Bournemouth on April 14, 1916, at the age of eighty-seven. 
Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire, M.A., was born in 1879. Soon after 
graduating at Oxford in 1902 he started important experiments on the 
laws of heredity, the main results of which are embodied in his book, 
Breeding and the Mendelian Discovery , first edition 1911, third edition 
1913. In 1911 he was appointed Lecturer in Genetics in the University 
of Edinburgh, and he began new work on Heredity in the University 
Experimental Farm at Fairslacks. When the war broke out in 1914 he 
was lecturing to the Graduate School of Agriculture at the University 
of Missouri and was offered a Research Fellowship there; but he resolved 
