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Pyrenees and the Alps, which he visited frequently, and with 
whose glacial phenomena he became very familiar. All his 
results found their way to the Naturalists’ Society. He 
was an excellent photographer and some of his photographs 
are reproduced in Kendall Wroot’s ‘ Geology of Yorkshire.’ 
It was indeed a passion with him to record with his camera 
whatever of beauty he encountered in nature. 
He made hundreds of beautiful lantern slides, well-known 
to members of the Union. They illustrated not only wild 
flowers in their natural surroundings but also the physiography 
and geology of the places he had visited, in a way which 
showed his gift for his work. 
Mr. Burnley was a native of Stanley, near Wakefield, 
and a product of Wakefield Grammar School. He went to 
Scarborough in 1901, on leaving St. John’s College, York. 
He became Local Secretary for North Yorkshire of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. He was a member of the 
Committee of the Scarborough Field Naturalists’ Society, 
of which he was a Past President, and for twenty-one years 
he was Joint Honorary Secretary of the Scarborough 
Philosophical and Archaeological Society. In all of these 
capacities he did yeoman service, but his greatest happiness 
was in the society of friends in the open country or in his 
beloved garden with his rock plants. 
Members of the Union throughout this country will deeply 
regret the passing at so early an age — he was only 54 — of a 
keen naturalist and a kind and generous man ; and will extend 
their deep sympathy to his widow and his daughter. Mrs. 
Burnley shared in a very unusual degree all his enthusiasms 
and his journeyings. Miss Winifred Burnley, following in 
her father’s footsteps, is a student at Bedford College, London, 
specialising in geology. 
D.W.B. 
The Natural History Society of Formosa at the Faculty of Science and 
Agriculture, Taihoku Imperial University, Taihoku, Japan, is anxious 
to exchange its publications with any English Institution of a similar 
character. Its Journal is published bi-monthly. 
According to the Sixty-second Annual Report of the Public Libraries 
Art Galleries and Museum Committee of Rochdale, during the year 136 
schoolchildren in seven parties have attended the museum as part of their 
school work, and the Rochdale Field Naturalists’ Society assisted with 
exhibitions of local wild flowers during the summer months. 
E. M. Marsden-Jones gave a paper to the Linnean Society recently 
on Ranunculus ficaria. Observations were made to ascertain the frequency 
and object of the visits of insects. A list of forty -eight species was 
obtained, comprising Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and 
Diptera. 
The Naturalist 
