96 Obituary. . 



REGINALD COOKSEY BURTON, 



B.Sc, F.G.S., Assistant Saperintendent Geological Survey of India. 



Bokn March 10, 1890. Died of wounds April 9, 1916. 



The name of 11. C. Burton has to be added to the " Roll of Honour " 

 of geologists who have given their lives for their country in the 

 present War. 



Dr. H. H. Harden, the Director, writes: "Mr. Burton joined 

 the Department in January, 1912, and was posted to the Central 

 Provinces, where, during his short period of service, he did admirable 

 work in helping to solve the question of the origin of the calcareous 

 gneisses which constitute such an important element of the Archaean 

 group of that area. His investigations into the origin of the bauxite 

 of Seoni and adjoining districts also gave evidence of marked ability, 

 and by his death the Geological Survey has lost one of the most 

 promising as well as one of the most popular of its younger members. 

 Mr. Burton joined the Indian Army Reserve of Officers early in 

 April, 1915, and after a short training in India was attached to the 

 104th Rifles in Mesopotamia, where he died on April 9, 1916, from 

 wounds received in action on the previous day. His loss is keenly 

 felt by all his colleagues." (Records of the Geological Survey of 

 India, vol. xlvii, pt. iii, p. 143, August, 1916.) 



SIR EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR, Knt. 1 



J. P., D.C.L., L.L.D., F.R.S., Hon. Fellow of Balliol College, and 

 Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Oxford. 



Bokn October 2, 1832. Died January 2, 1917. 



This famous Anthropologist was born at Camberwell October 2, 

 1832, and educated at the school of the Society of Friends, 

 Grove House, Tottenham, to which Society his family belonged. 

 He was one of the sons of the originator of the old firm of Trior 

 and Sons, Brass-founders, Newgate Street, E.G., of which his brother 

 Alfred Tylor, F.G.S., was for many years chief. Abandoning 

 business E. B. Tylor devoted himself to the study of the races of 

 mankind, their history, languages, and civilization, and had the 

 advantage, at 24 years of age, to accompany his friend Henry Christy 

 on a journey in Mexico in 1856; the archaeological objects then 

 collected now form part of the Christy Collection in the British 

 Museum. His researches are embodied in Anahuac, or Mexico and 

 the Mexicans (1861), Researches into the History of Mankind (1865), 

 and Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, 

 Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom (2 vols., 1871 ; 3rd ed., 1891). 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1871, Honorarv 

 LL.D. St. Andrew's (1873), and D.C.L. Oxford (1873). In 1883 he 

 was appointed Keeper of the Oxford University Museum, Reader, 

 and in 1896 the first Professor, in Anthropology. In 1858 he married 

 Anna, daughter of the late Sylvanus Fox, of Wellington, Somerset. 

 to which place he retired after resigning his post at Oxford. He 

 received the honour of knighthood in 1912. 



1 See also Nature, January 11, 1917, p. 373. 



