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convictions, but willi a character sucli tliat even those who differed 

 i'roiii him most, could not but love and adiinre liini. 



Few have been alile to command the opportunities ortlie means 

 he enjoyed, fewer still iiave put tliem to better use He was in 

 the true sense an English gentleman, a sportsman, and a traveller, 

 devoted to the pursuit of jN'atural Science. 



[Gerald W. E. Loder.] 



The following came before the Linnean Society : — 



1881, 2 June. Indian-made Quinine shown " for" H. J. Elwes. 



18i)8. 15 Dec. " Sketch of the Zoology and J3otany of the Altai Moun- 

 tains."" J. liinn. Soc, Zool. x.\vii. 1899, pp. 2.'3-4(), o fjo-s. 



1902. Nov. " Notes on a Natural History Journey in Cliile." 



1913. 4 Dec. Lecture: "The Travels of Sir Joseph Hooker in the 

 Sik'kim Himalaya," with specimens, drawings, maps, and lantern 

 slides. [1st Hooker Lecture.] 



The MS. was delivered years later, ■when the second and 

 third Hooker Lectures had been delivered and printed ; it was 

 then considered too late to print it. ' [B. D. J.] 



Joiix Henry Gurnev, styled "The Younger," to distinguish him 

 from his father of the same nanie, was born at jS^orwich on the 31st 

 of July, lb48, a nati\e of that county which since the days of Sir 

 Thomas Hrowne has contributed so many to the ranks of natura- 

 lists ; to name a few — the founders of the Linnean Society, 

 Sir James Edward Smith was a JN^orwich man, John Lindley, Sir 

 AVilliam Jackson Hooker, Dawson Turner, Alfred Newton, Henry 

 Stevenson, and Thomas Southwell, shed lustre upon East Anglia. 

 He joined the Zoological Society in 18t58, two years later, the 

 British Ornithologists' Union, and on the 3rd of JJecember, 18S5, 

 he was elected a Eellow of our Society. Begininng in 1867 with 

 an account of the Grey Phalarope in Great Britain during the 

 autumn of the previous year, he published 'Eambles of a jN'atu- 

 ralist in Egypt and other Countries' in 1876, followed by a 

 'Catalogue of the Birds of Norfolk' in 1884, reprinted from 

 Mason's History of that county; and a 'Catalogue of the Birds 

 of Prey in the Norwich Museum ' 1894, a continuation of his 

 father's volume in 18(>4. In local reports he was indefatigable, 

 more than a hundred contributions to the county avifauna being 

 credited to him. The year 1913 witnessed the production of his 

 volume on ' The Gannet: a bird with a history,' with many illus- 

 trations and maps, which must remain a classic. 



He was an original member of the Norfolk and Norwich 

 Naturalists' Society, which was founded in 1869, and was its 

 President for four terms, the last being in 1919-20. In 1876 he 

 married Margaret Jane, daughter of Henry Edmund Gurney, a 

 member of another branch of the family ; at his death at Keswick 

 Mall, near Norwich, after a short illness, on the 9th November, 

 1922, he left one son and three daughters. [B. D. J.] 



