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IN MEMORIAM. 
Tempest Anderson, M.D., D.Sc., President of the 
Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 
JI) Y the death of Dr. Tempest Anderson on August 26th last, 
the Yorkshire Philosophical Society has suffered an 
irreparable loss. He was not only its President, its most con¬ 
stant friend, and most enthusiastic supporter; he was a generous 
donor during his life, and the munificience of his last bequests 
to it will serve to keep his name in grateful remembrance as 
long as the Society exists. 
Tempest Anderson had for many years devoted much time 
and attention to geological pursuits, especially to the study 
of volcanoes and seismic phenomena. His practical knowledge 
of this department of science was probably unsurpassed. He 
left home in January last to pay a long-purposed visit to the 
volcanoes of Java and the Philippines. On his voyage back an 
attack of heat apoplexy seized him in the Red Sea and quickly 
proved fatal. He was buried at Suez. 
He had on various occasions previously had narrow escapes 
of losing his life when engaged in scientific travel. During a 
visit to Mexico for the Geological Congress in 1906, ptomaine 
poisoning caused him a severe illness ; and when, in company 
with Dr. Flett, on a mission from the Royal Society to Mount 
Pelee and the Soufriere, he only just escaped destruction from 
a sudden eruption of the former mountain. It is a pathetic 
ending to his busy life that, when at last time and opportunity 
were granted him to visit Java and the Philippines, and after 
he had secured a large number of those artistic and instructive 
photographs which have made his name so well known to all 
who are interested in geography and geology, and which it was 
his delight to exhibit to this Society, he should have been 
carried off by death when more than half-way on his voyage 
home. 
Tempest Anderson, the son of a well-known York doctor, 
William C. Anderson, who belonged to an old Yorkshire family, 
was born at Stonegate, York, in 1846. He was educated at 
the ancient school of St. Peter's, York, in which he ever took a 
