Burnham

Sherburne Wesley,; an American astronomer, born in Thetford, Vt., in 1838. He took up astronomy as an amateur, and, in 1876, became connected with the Chicago Observatory, and later with the Lick Observatory, receiving also an appointment as Profe or of Practical Astronomy at the University of Chicago. He has made notable discoveries of double stars, having catalogued 1,274 new ones.. Burning, a mode of capital punishment formerly common in civilized countries, In metal working, joining metals by melting their adjacent edges, or heating the adjacent edges and running into the intermediate space some molten metal of the same kind. In ceramics, the final heating of clay ware, which changes it from the dried or biscuited condition to the perfect ware. The glaze or enamel is applied to the baked ware, and is vitrified in the burning.