92 



Vice-President, Sir John Cordy Burrows : and it was tit at that, their 

 first meeting after the event, they should talce some notice of it. 

 Those whose memor)" would carry them back a quarter of a century 

 would know perfectly well the value he had been to the town. His 

 public character and work had doubtless kept him a good deal away 

 from the meetings of the Society of late years, yet still they were 

 conscious that he had always a wann interest in its welfare. In fact, 

 they had only to remember that he was one of the few co-workers of 

 the immortal Frederick Robertson in the establishment of the 

 Mechanics' Institute ; that he also took an active part in the Albion 

 Rooms Institution and the Athenseum, and that he had been ever ready 

 to assist Societies that had for their object the advance of general 

 education and the cultivation of literature, art, and science, to know 

 that the Society had, in Sir Cordy Burrows, lost a true friend. Brighton 

 had been ready to acknowledge it ; it did so a very short time since in 

 a very tangible manner, and now it had paid a last mark of respect 

 and given an expression of sympathy with his family by a public 

 manifestation at his funeral. The resolution he had to move was — 



" That the Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society deeply 

 deplore the loss it had sustained by the death of Sir Cordy 

 Burrows ; and desires to convey to Lady and Mr. Seymour 

 Burrows their cordial sympathy in their great bereavement." 



Mr. T. W. WoNFOR (one of the Hon. Secretaries) said it was with 

 mournful pleasure that he rose to second that resolution, the more so 

 that for the whole of the time he had been in Brighton, now three and 

 twenty years, he had been intimately connected with the deceased in 

 many works for the improvement of the people. His first connection 

 with Sir Cordy was in the Albion Rooms, to which the Chairman had 

 referred. In that Sir Cordy took a very warm interest so long as it 

 existed ; and when it ceased he was mainly instrumental in keeping 

 together the books of that Institution, thus fonning the nucleus of the 

 present Free Library. So strongly did some gentlemen feel the 

 benefit he had conferred on the town by doing that, that five gentle- 

 men met at the home of one whom he saw present that evening, and 

 inaugurated that testimonial which grew beyond any thing they at 

 that time anticipated — a testimonial given to him for his services 

 rendered to the town. Sir Cordy had always wished and urged that 

 there should be a Free Library and Museum in the town, and some 



