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1902 he was Registrar of the Gainsborough County Court. 

 He was educated at Rugby, and early in hfe took a keen interest 

 in natural history, particularly botany and geology. So long 

 ago as 1866 he drew attention, in a communication to the 

 Geological Society of London, to an exposure of Rhaetic rocks 

 in the railway cutting at Gainsborough ; and in The Naturalist 

 for 1903 he recorded the presence of the same beds in a deep 

 boring at Lincoln. 



He was a frequent contributor to our journal, and in 1895 

 wrote ' The Story of Lincoln Gap ' in the November number. 

 In the previous year he printed a paper on ' How the Land 

 between Gainsborough and Lincoln was Formed ' ; and these 

 two, together with additional information, formed a little 

 book on ' The Shaping of Lindsey by the Trent,' which was 

 published by Messrs. A. Brown & Sons in 1907, and noticed 

 in this journal at the time. In more recent years Mr. Burton 

 took a keen interest in the erratics found in his county, and 

 communicated a number of notes on the subject to The Natura- 

 list. In connection with this work he paid a visit to the York- 

 shire coast, and the writer well remembers the rate at which 

 Mr. Burton was able to walk on the sands from Withernsea 

 to Spurn. 



Mr. Burton took a keen interest in the Lincolnshire Natura- 

 lists' Union, and occupied its presidential chair in 1894-5. He 

 frequently attended its meetings, and rarely was so happy as 

 when conducting a party over ground he knew so well. He 

 took a prominent part in the formation of the County Museum 

 at Lincoln. 



Mr. Burton was an ardent angler and an enthusiastic 

 horticulturalist, and his gardens at Gainsborough were well 

 stocked with rare Alpine and marsh plants. He had also a 

 valuable collection of orchids. 



He was twice married ; his eldest son is the vicar of Ban- 

 bury, and his j^ounger son is vicar of Christchurch, New Zealand. 



Some little time ago the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union 

 published an account of Mr. Burton's work, in its Transactions, 

 to the editor of which we are indebted for the loan of the ac- 

 companying block. — T. S. 



Hutchinson's Popular Botany : the Living Plant from Seed to Fruit, 

 by A. E. Knight and Edward Step. This is apparently a new edition of 

 ' The Living Plant,' by the same authors published a few years ago. In 

 the present work many of the crude text figures of the earlier work have 

 been omitted, and numerous photographs have been added, most of which 

 are excellent. The work, which is written in an attractive style, is to be 

 completed in eighteen parts at yd. each, and will contain 1000 illustrations, 

 some of which are coloured. Being printed on art paper, full justice is 

 done to the photographs which form a striking and pleasing feature. 



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