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Mr. Hudson Gurney, in order to point out and explain to friends 
of his, some of the many objects of antiquarian interest in the 
City. He rarely, however, left home for longer than a few days 
together : indeed, his means would not admit of it. Never did lie 
gain sufficient of this world’s goods to place him in a position of 
pecuniary ease. A memorandum dated July, 1827, shewed how 
he then had to bring his expenses within .£150 a year, and at no 
subsequent period probably did they very largely exceed this 
amount. No wonder then that the struggle for existence became 
keen. Nevertheless, lie was always ready to render assistance to 
others in giving information which they sought, as an acknowledg- 
ment of which lie received many gifts of fossils, antiquities, and 
books, which added to those he obtained by the exchange of 
specimens, ultimately rendered his collection a very extensive and 
typical one. Many published papers which he could not afford to 
purchase, ho carefully copied out. 
The year 1831 was marked by the formation of the British 
Association for the advancement of Science, and John Phillips 
invites him to attend the first meeting hold at York ; this, 
however, he was unable to do. Mr. and Mrs. Murchison in their 
return southwards from this meeting, pay a short visit to 
Mr. Gurney, at Keswick, who previously writes to my grand- 
father, begging him “to get them in the way of seeing all they 
wish,” as he was delayed in Town. Subsequently Mr. Murchison 
wrote from Snettisham, where he had broken his journey, telling 
him when he expected to bo in Norwich, though asking him not 
to wait for him, “ inasmuch [he said] as I travel with my own 
horses, and am much more frequently stopped on the road than 
most modern travellers.” 
The following year (1832) he was again in London, and went the 
round of the principal learned societies with Hudson Gurney; with 
him also he went one Sunday evening, at nine o’clock, to a conver- 
sazione at Mr. Murchison’s, where he met Buckland and Lyell. 
With reference to some remarks made by Sir John Byerley, on 
the direction of our ecclesiastical buildings, lie tested twenty-four 
of the Norwich churches with the compass, and found them to 
deviate as much ns 24 N., and 21° S., of E.* 
*8ee Mo'j. of Not. Hiet., Vo!, v., p. 762. 
