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were largely attended, and greatly stimulated the study of his 

 favourite science in the county. Mr. Gurney was elected a 

 Fellow of the Zoological Society in the same year, 1852, and 

 was one of the founders, in 1859, of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union, to whose publication, ' The Ibis,' he was a frequent 

 contributor to the last, and upon the formation of a similar society 

 in the United States he was appointed one of the first foreign 

 honorary members. He was elected an honorary member of the 

 Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, at its formation in 

 1869, and took a lively interest in its publications, to which he 

 was a frequent contributor. 



The most important of his published works is the volume on 

 the 'Birds of DamaraLand and the adjacent countries of South- 

 West Africa/ which he prepared and edited, in 1872, from the 

 MS. notes and letters addressed to him by the late Charles John 

 Anderson, and which continues to be the standard work of 

 reference on the Ornithology of that portion of the great African 

 continent. 



But prior to the appearance of this volume, Mr. Gurney had 

 published ' A Sketch of the Collection of Kaptorial Birds in the 

 Norwich Museum' (12mo, London, no date), and 'A Descriptive 

 Catalogue of the Raptorial Birds in the Norwich Museum. 

 Parti. — Serpentariidae, Polyboridae, Vulturidse' (8vo, London, 

 1864) ; while some years later — namely, in 1884 — he brought 

 out his very useful 'List of the Diurnal Birds of Prey, with 

 references and annotations,' of which a notice appeared in * The 

 Zoologist,' 1884, p. 280. 



Next in importance are his numerous contributions to the 

 1 Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' and to ' The Ibis,' 

 amongst which may be specially noted his papers on the 

 Ornithology of South Africa, and particularly of Natal, founded 

 upon collections made by Mr. E. L. Layard, Mr. Thomas Ayres, 

 and others, and his critical reviews of the volumes of the British 

 Museum Catalogue of Birds, published as these volumes from 

 time to time appeared. 



The following list of papers and short communications from 

 his pen, although not complete, will furnish a tolerably accurate 

 view of the nature of his researches. 



His earliest printed communication seems to have been 

 published in the first volume of ' The Zoologist,' — i. e. in 1843, — 



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