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done so much to keep aliv^e and extend an interest in 

 our native flora. 



In his own district Mr. Gunn was best known as 

 the Secretary of the large and prosperous Berwickshire 

 Naturalists' Club, the oldest Field Club in Britain. His 

 predecessor in that office, the late Dr. James Hardy, of 

 Old Cambus, was a man of exceptional ability and 

 scientific knowledge, and it shows the esteem in which 

 Mr. Gunn was held that he was chosen to succeed him. 

 His duties required for their successful discharge great 

 tact and judgment in dealing with men, as well as 

 knowledge of the many different branches of science 

 which the Club pursues, and they entailed much labour 

 and incessant correspondence. Without encroaching 

 upon his parish work, he found time to undertake 

 these, and to perform them to the perfect satisfaction 

 of the Club. Dr. Hardy had brought the " Proceedings," 

 whicti are published annually, to a high pitch of excel- 

 lence, and Mr. Gunn devoted himself enthusiastically to 

 maintaining the standard they had reached. In a very 

 short time he worked off the arrears that had accumulated, 

 and issued one part alter another until he had brought 

 them up to date. He not only wrote for and edited 

 the " Proceedings," but the onerous task devolved on 

 him of making all arrangements for the six meetings 

 which are held every year in Eoxburghshire, Berwick- 

 shire, and Northumberland. He thus came into contact 

 witli all who are interested in science in these counties, 

 and the more he became known the more he was 

 respected and liked. In the various expeditions of the 

 Club, as in those of the vScottish Alpine Botanical Club, 

 he was a charming companion, genial, warm-hearted, 

 good-tempered, and amusing, and none will miss him 

 more than the members of these two clubs, whose 

 meetings he was never absent from. If he had been 

 spared he would have done much more useful work 

 than he had the opportunity of doing. He was cut 

 off in the prime of his life and vigour, and has left 

 behind him, enshrined in the hearts of his many friends, 

 the memory of a good man, an<l of an unselfish, laborious, 

 use I'll 1 life. 



