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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[JANUARY, 1917
#work on "The Muhammadan Architecture of Ahmedabad." In 1901 he gave us, in his private capacity, a small but valuable book entitled "Buddhist Art in India," being a translation, made by Miss A. C. Gibson and revised and enlarged by himself and enriched with additional illustration, of Professor Albert Grünwedel's "Handbuch" on this topic, which had been published in 1893. In 1903, again in co-operation with Mr. Cousens, he gave us a volume on "The Architectural Antiquities of Northern Gujarat." And in 1905 he produced Part 2 of "The Muhammadan Architecture of Ahmedabad." This was his last official publication. But even then his activity by no means came to an end. He wrote the account of Indian architecture which was published in 1908 in the new edition of the Imperial Gazetteer of India, Vol. 2, pp. 155-205. In 1910, in co-operation with Mr. Phena Spiers, he gave us a revised edition of Fergusson's History of Indian and Eastern Architecture," originally published in 1876, which he brought up to date in the light of all the more recent knowledge that had been acquired since then and of his own special acquaintance with the subject. And in 1913 he gave us "The Chronology of Modern India, A. D. 1494-1894," as a complement to the well-known book on the earlier chronology, from ancient times down to the beginning of the sixteenth century, which had been published in 1899 by Miss C. Mabel Duff (Mrs. Rickmers).
As may have been gathered from some things said above, Dr. Burgess was an expert mathematician This branch of knowledge he never deserted, finding in it the relaxation from ordinary work which all of us need in some form or another. In 1898 he was awarded the Keith Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for a paper in which he propounded a new process in the Error-function Definite Integral. And it was this side of his attainments that enabled him to give us in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1893, pp. 717-761, a most instructive paper entitled "Notes on Hindu Astronomy and the History of our Knowledge of it." It is to be regretted that he did not write more in this line of research, which has been much neglected since the time when Whitney publiabed his notes and illustrations to the translation of the Sûrya-Siddhanta.
When Dr. Burgess gave us his "Chronology of Modern India," his health had broken down to such an extent that he was no longer capable of any continuous efforts ; it began to fail, in fact, about ten years ago, and it was only under stress of great pain and increasing feebleness that he finished his last two publications. He was afflicted by serious weakness of the heart, and by a complaint which made severe surgical operations nécessary from time to time. Life was a heavy burden to him for the last few years during which he was never free from discomfort, if not actual pain, and was, indeed, for much of the time in bed. But he always had the consolation that his mind remained clear, which enabled him up to the very last to take a practical interest in any topics that were submitted to him for elucidation, and the devoted attentions of a wife and daughters who helped him in keeping up his communications with friends at a distance whenever he could not write letters in person. He bore his sufferings with signal patience and resignation, under the influence of his natural fortitude and the deep religious convictions that he held, and has passed at last to rest, to be missed greatly by all who had the privilege of knowing him.
Dr. Burgess's merits and work received recognition in various quarters. He was made LLD of the University of Edinburgh in 1881, and Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1885. He was an Honorary Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architests; an Honorary Member of the Imperial Russian Archaeological Society, the American Oriental Society, and the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow; and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the University of Bombay. And he was an Honorary Associate of the Finno-Ugrian Society, and a Corresponding Member of the Ethnological Society of Berlin and of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences. He was also a Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, which he joined in 1886, and of which he was at the time of his death almost the oldest surviving member; a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a Member of the Société Asiatique, Paris,
