Ixxxiv PEOCEEDINGS OF THE 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



The Secretary tlieu read the following Notices of deceased 

 3fembers : — 



The Venerable Archdeacon Charles Parr Burney, D.D., F.R.8., 

 F. G.S., ^c., was born at Chiswick, on the 19th of October, 1785. 



Descended from a family distinguished for several generations 

 on both the male and female sides by literary and other attain- 

 ments, the late Dr. Burney fully maintained the honour of his 

 riiame. Under the immediate tuition of his father, the celebrated 

 classical scholar, and doubtless with a view to the scholastic pro- 

 fession himself. Dr. Burney's attention, as was to be expected, 

 was principally devoted to classical and mathematical studies, in 

 which he became distinguished at an early age. His university 

 career was passed at Merton College, Oxford ; at its conclusion 

 he joined his father in the direction of the large and excellent 

 school for which Grreenwich was so long and so eminently distin- 

 guished, and to the entire management of which Dr. Burney suc- 

 ceeded on the death of his father. 



On receiving a presentation to the living of Sible Hedingham, 

 in Essex, Dr. Burney relinquished the academical profession, and 

 devoted himself, with his charactei-istic conscientiousness, to the 

 duties of a parish priest. Shortly afterwards he was appointed 

 Archdeacon of St. Alban's, and in 181i5 was nominated to the 

 same office in Colchester. 



Though never, so far as I am aware, a contributor himself to 

 natural science, Dr. Burney was throughout his life distinguished 

 by his attachment to it. He delighted in the conversation of 

 scientific men, and at one time was a not unfrequent attendant 

 at the meetings of this and of other societies, especially the Greolo- 

 gical and Zoological, of which latter he was one of the original mem- 

 bers. He became a Eellow of this Society on the 21st of January, 

 1823 ; and died at Brighton, on the 1st of December, 1864. 



Samuel Cartioright, JEsq., F.B.S, F.G.S., Sfc., was born at 

 Northampton, in the year 1789, and died at Tunbridge, on the 

 lOtb of June, 1864, having been a Eellow of this Society since 

 the 19th of November, 1833. 



Although a member of nearly every scientific society in London, 

 Mr. Cartwright was not, so far as I am aware, a contributor to 

 the ' Proceedings' of any. He was, nevertheless, a man of consi- 

 derable mark, and in his own profession — that of a dentist — per- 

 haps in his time unrivalled. 



