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Mr. A. I. BURNLEY. 
By the untimely death of Mr. A. I. Burnley, of Scarborough, 
on October 4th, the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union has lost 
one of its warmest supporters, while to the Scarborough Field 
Naturalists’ Society the loss is indeed a sad one. For over 
thirty years he had been one of its stalwarts. His love of 
nature and enthusiasm for investigation were unbounded. 
He had long been known to members of the Union as the 
authority for the flora of the Scarborough district. As 
Botanical Recorder for the S.F.N.S. he determined, shortly 
before the war, to visit every locality where any comparatively 
rare plant was reported to grow. This he carried out within a. 
radius of fifteen to twenty miles. All his work was on this plane. 
When, in 1917, Mr. Burnley, already well-known locally 
as a teacher, was invited to take the post of Geography Master 
at the High School, he immediately developed an extra- 
ordinary enthusiasm and came to be described as a pioneer 
in geographical teaching. He had already mastered in the 
field every detail of Professor Kendall’s work on local 
glaciation. He now extended his studies to the Pennines, 
the Lake District, Scotland, and the Continent, notably the 
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