Abstract
BY the death of Mr. Samuel Hawksley Burbury, on August 18, at eighty years of age, we have lost an ardent worker in the domain of mathematical physics who did much to elucidate the mysteries of several problems in molecular dynamics. Mr. Burbury was the son of Mr. Samuel Burbury, of Leamington, and was born at Kenilworth in May, 1831. He was educated at Shrewsbury and St. John's College, Cambridge; he was Craven University scholar, Chancellor's medallist, Browne medallist, twice Porson prizeman, and fifteenth Wrangler and second in classical tripos, 1854. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1858, but his new profession did not prevent him from continuing his mathematical studies, and he thus became one of the few workers in this country who have produced original mathematical investigations while engaged in duties other than that of a mathematical teacher.
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