PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS. ( All at end of book. )

CREMATION OF THE DEAD. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER II. METHODS OF TREATING THE DEAD.

CHAPTER III. OUR BURIAL LAWS.

CHAPTER IV. DANGERS OF OUR SYSTEM OF BURIAL.

CHAPTER V. PRESENT STATE OF THE CREMATION QUESTION. [117]

CHAPTER VI. CREMATION, ANCIENT AND MODERN.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CREMATION.

INDEX.

BY
WILLIAM EASSIE, C.E.

FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES
MEMBER OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1875

[All rights reserved]

Dedicated

TO

SIR H. THOMPSON, F.R.C.S.

ETC. ETC.

IN RECOGNITION OF HIS ENLIGHTENED ADVOCACY OF
A PRACTICE PREVALENT IN ANCIENT TIMES,
BUT LONG ABANDONED, TO THE GREAT
DETRIMENT OF MANKIND