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explosion of acetylene gas in December, 1898, was a great blow 
to him. 
A firm believer in peace, he strongly opposed the resort to war 
under any conditions. It is not too much to say that the last 
months of his life were saddened by the recent war in South 
Africa, which he considered as not only being wrong, but in the 
highest degree detrimental to the best interests and good name 
of England. Nor did he lack the courage of his opinions in 
denouncing it. It is significant, as an indication of the general 
respect in which he was held, that when other opponents of the 
war had their windows broken by the rabble, his escaped. 
Mr. Southwell has, at my request, furnished me with the follow- 
ing early recollections of our mutual friend : — 
It is so man} - years since we practically lost sight of each other, and 
Burlingham was such an impossible correspondent, that I shall have little 
to say of present interest. 
It was in the year 1846 that I left school and entered upon the struggle 
for existence — at that time the merchant aristocracy of Lynn was fast 
yielding before the introduction of steam navigation and railroads, and 
giving place to the more modern methods with which they could not con- 
form, and I fear a similar decadence was taking place in the intellectual 
standard of the society of the town — there were signs of a similar change 
which took place in the first half of the century in the City of Norwich — 
but one legacy which they left behind was an excellent Subscription 
Library, containing many valuable books not often found in a provincial 
town, and which spoke well for the literary taste of those who had made the 
selection ; there was also a society which flourished under the somewhat 
pretentious title of the “ Lynn Conversazione and Society of Arts,” embody- 
ing amongst its members men who fairly represented most branches of 
science, including archaeology, mechanics, and chemistry. It was at the 
meetings of this Society that I first made the acquaintance of three friends, 
Daniel Catlin Burlingham, Edward Laird King, and Thomas Pung. 
I had from my earliest years been an ardent lover of birds, and here were 
three men all somewhat older than myself who gave me the benefit of their 
experience; all were botanists, and all more or less interested in ornithology, 
two were skilled mechanicians, and well versed in the sciences of horology 
and optics, and King and Pung were microscopists, all possessed of 
libraries of works bearing upon their favourite studies. But it was 
Burlingliam’s love of out-door pursuits that cemented our friendship, and 
many were the tramps over heath and fen that we made together. He 
seemed to be made of untiring material, and no amount of walking came 
amiss to him. After attending the Quarterly Meeting of the Friends at 
Norwich or Wells I have known him to walk back to Lynn, from the latter 
place by the coast, studying the birds and plants by the way, and wading or 
