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president’s address. 
The results of his many years ardent collecting he presented to 
the Norwich Museum, where a room, specially erected for their 
reception, is known as the “ Gunn Room;” and in 1870 his portrait, 
painted by public subscription, was placed in the Museum in 
recognition of his great services to that institution. Mr. Gunn 
was fitly mated with a daughter of Dawson Turner, F.R.S., and 
through her he became attracted to the study of archmology, and 
remained till the last an active member of the Norfolk Arclneological 
Society, but nothing ever diminished his ardour for his original 
pursuits. Manly in form and simple in mind, Mr. Gunn was 
pre-eminently the typical courteous English gentleman, always 
kindly and thoughtful for others. Keen in argument, but careful 
of the susceptibilities of his opponents, he made many friends but 
never an enemy. His leading feature was an absolute love of 
truth, and it thus came about that, after forty years’ service in the 
Church, feeling that he could not conscientiously preach some of 
the doctrines of the Church of England, he resigned his preferment 
and eventually left the ministry. How great was the sacrifice to 
him to quit “the place of his birth, the scenes of childhood, and 
of a mature and happy life, and a charming spot where almost 
every tree and shrub was planted by himself,” he endeavoured to 
tell his former parishioners in a letter addressed to them on taking 
his farewell ; but nothing deterred this sturdy apostle of truth 
from following the dictates of his conscience. All Mr. Gunn’s 
energies were devoted to the furtherance of the objects of the 
Norwich Geological Society, until its amalgamation with our own 
Society, so that he was never a contributor to our ‘ Transactions ; ’ 
but he frequently joined us in our field work, and his memory will 
be venerated by all who knew him as one who laboured successfully 
in a branch of science which has now happily come within our 
sphere of action. 
Ihe Rev. Henry Temple Frere, who died in December last, 
in the sixty-ninth year of his age, at Burston Rectory, where 
he had resided many years, was born at Roydon, on the 22nd of 
November, 1821. He was owner of a choice collection of birds, 
including two Savi’s Warblers, one of them killed on South 
