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kindly interest, and where he was always enthusiastically 
received by the boys, and at the University of London. He was 
a student at University College, where he greatly distinguished 
himself, and of which he was elected a Fellow. He took the 
London M.D. degree in 1873, and in 1904 the University of 
Leeds conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of 
Science. Dr. Anderson took a special interest in all that con¬ 
cerned the eye, and soon acquired in the North of England a 
great reputation as an oculist. He published various articles 
on this branch of surgery in the medical periodicals. 
Dr. Anderson was for many years a member of the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science. He was Local 
Secretary at the Jubilee Meeting which was held at York in 
1881 ; and when the Association again visited York in 1906 
for its 75th Anniversary he was elected a Vice-President, and 
had the distinguished honour of lecturing on Volcanoes at one 
of the two great evening meetings in the hall of the Exhibition. 
But it was as an explorer and photographer of valcanoes 
that he gained a reputation which may, without exaggeration, 
be described as international. In the preface to his ‘Volcanic 
Studies’* he says : “For the last eighteen years I have spent 
the greater part of my holidays in exploring volcanic regions, 
including Vesuvius (twice), Etna, the Lipari Islands, Auvergne 
(several times) the Eifel (repeatedly), the Canary Islands, Ice¬ 
land (two long visits), and various British extinct volcanoes 
now and again ; in 1900, the district of the Grand Canon of the 
Colorado in the Arizona Desert, which contains many extinct 
volcanoes ; the Snake River and Columbia Basalts ; the Crater 
Lake in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon, and the Yellow¬ 
stone Park.’’ 
He visited the Soufriere and Mont Pelbe as the accredited 
representative of the Royal Society in conjunction with Dr. 
Flett, in 1902, returning to them in 1907 and examining the 
volcanoes of Guatemala and Mexico ; Matavanu in Savaii, 
Hawaii, New Zealand ; and in the journey from which, alas, he 
never returned home, the volcanoes of Java, Krakatau, and the 
Philippines. He had also visited South Africa with the British 
* London : John Murray, 1903, page x. 
