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president’s address. 
and Mr. Arthur Preston read his annual Meteorological .Notes, 
supplementing them with a valuable contribution on the 
great frost of 1890—91 ; a note Avas also received from the 
llev. Julian G. Tuck, on a Great Bustard shot in Mildenhall 
Pen in February of this year. Several other papers will 
bo found printed in the ‘Transactions’ which for Avant of 
time have been taken as read, and a number of interesting 
exhibitions have been made and commented upon at the monthly 
meetings. 
As you have just heard, the Treasurer’s Beport is a satisfactory 
one, although there has been a slight falling off in the number of 
members. Death has, I regret to say, robbed us of four, ten have 
resigned for various reasons, and ten neAV members have been 
elected, leaving the total number two hundred and lifty-four 
against two hundred and fifty-eight last year. 
In tho death of Mr. John Gunn, M.A., F.G.S., Avhich took 
placo on the 28th May, 1890, tho Society has lost one of its 
original members. Born in the year 1801, Mr. Gunn devoted a 
long life to the study of tho science of Geology, chiefly that of 
his native county, Avith Avhich his name Avill ever be honourably 
associated. In an address to the members of the Norwich 
Geological Society, Avhich Avas founded in 18G4, and of Avhich he 
Avas the first president, Mr. Gunn said he could never forget, and 
could never describe the electric effect produced upon him by the 
discovery of the fossil remains of the Elephant, Bhinoceros, and 
Hippopotamus in the Forest Bed at Happisburgh, &c. lie asked 
his father (then Hector of Irstead, to Avhich preferment he sub- 
sequently himself succeeded) Iioav these creatures, noAv living in 
tropical countries, could have existed in this 1 and he received an 
ansAver which Avas still fresh in his memory, and Avhich constantly 
recurred to him, “There is much to be done before that can be 
found out,” and Avith all his energy he set himself to solve the 
problem. Mr. Gunn Avas contemporary with Samuel WoodAvard 
and Miss Anna Gurne\-, both of Avhom Avere ardent collectors of 
the fossil mammalia of the Forest Bed, and to the former he 
acknowledged his indebtedness for his first lessons in geology. 
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