RECENT VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN THE 
WEST INDIES.* 
By Dr. Tempest Anderson. 
(Reprinted by permission from the ‘Geographical Journal’ of March, 1903.) 
The author and his colleague received much assistance, information, and hospi¬ 
tality from friends too numerous to particularize, but among them they cannot 
refrain from mentioning— 
At Barbados, Dr. and Mrs. Morris, of the Imperial Agricultural Department. 
At St. Vincent and Granada, the Governor, Sir Robert Llewellyn, Lady 
Llewellyn and family, and T. H. Preston, Esq., his private secretary, Mr. Griffith 
and Lieut. Robinson, the Messrs. Macdonald and Mr. J. E. Richards, Mr. H. Powell, 
of the Botanical Gardens, the Rev. Mr. Bell and Miss Bell, of Georgetown, and 
Major Bayly. 
At Martinique, M. L’Heurre, the acting governor, and Professor Lacroix. 
At St. Lucia, Colonel and Mrs. Dalrymple-Hay, Mr. Okell, and Major Hodder, r.e. 
At Dominica, the Hon, Hesketh Bell, Dr. Nicholls, Mr. Sowray and Mr. Naish. 
My thanks are also specially due to Prof. Bonney, f.r.s., and Dr. Flett for 
reading the proofs and giving valuable information. 
17, Stonegate, 
Y ork. 
It will be in the remembrance of every one present that in May, 1902, 
severe volcanic eruptions took place in St. Vincent and Martinique, 
both of which islands form part of the chain of the lesser Antilles in 
the West Indies. The Royal Society appointed a committee to investi¬ 
gate the eruptions, by whom I had the honour of being nominated along 
with Dr. J. S. Flett, Petrologist to the Geological Survey, to proceed to 
the scene of the eruptions and report to them. In our report, read 
before the Royal Society on November 20, w T e have already entered 
fully into the description and discussion of the phenomena observed ; 
it will be better, therefore, in this paper to content myself with a 
resume of the chief points, with special references to the geographical 
changes produced. 
The islands of the lesser Antilles, from Saba on the north to 
Grenada on the south, form the summits of a chain of mountains about 
two-thirds submerged; for while their highest peaks reach elevations 
* Read at the Royal Geographical Society, January 12,1903. Maps, p. 282. The 
description of the plates will be found at the end of the paper. 
