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MEMOIR OF THE LATE JOHN HENRY GURNEY. 
Nicholas de Donston, 1295, le weyder.” None are at that time 
called by any name connected with madder. 
With many another native industry already lost, that of the 
“ Weyder ” is on the verge of extinction ; and unlike the primeval 
simplicity so graphically portrayed by Garth as existing 
“In times of old, when British nymphs were known 
To love no foreign fashions like their own ; 
When dress was monstrous, and fig leaves the mode, 
And quality put on no paint but Woad,” 
the mode is becoming daily more exacting, and should the fashion 
of Woad repeat itself, it seems probable that it will be rather in 
the laboratory of the chemist, than in that of nature, that the 
pigment will be produced. 
III. 
MEMOIR OF THE LATE JOHN HENRY GURNEY. 
By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S. 
Read 81st March, 1891. 
Hardly had our Society entered upon the twenty-second year 
of its existence when death deprived us of one of its most 
distinguished members, and one to whose name and influence is 
largely due the position which the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society has been enabled to attain amongst kindred associations. 
On the 24th April, 1890, some of us paid a last tribute of sincere 
respect at the grave of him whom just twenty-one years before 
we had elected our first Honorary Member, an act which, whilst 
intended to honour the recipient, reflected the greater honour and 
advantage upon ourselves. 
