(From the Japan Mail" of the 7th inst.)
It is with the greatest regret that we announce the death of Professor W. K. Burton, which took place at 9.10 p.m. on the 5th instant, in the University Hospital at Hongo. Professor Burton had been in indifferent health for some years, and when in Formosa last summer he was attacked by a combination of illnesses all aggravated by, if not directly due to the very trying climate of the island acting upon a man of impaired constitution who never knew how to spare himself when duty called. The immediate cause of death was acute inflammation of the liver consequent on dysentery. Professor Burton was a man of rare scientific attainments and still rarer nobility of nature. He did splendid work in Japan during the fifteen years of his residence here, not only in the field of sanitary engineering, but also in that of photography, specialty which he purened with such success as to win a wotldwide reputation. He leaves a widow and a little daughter with whose sad bereavement all will sympathise.
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