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OBITUARY NOTICES. 
mucking his fields with lightning.” Mr. Dix lived to a great age, 
enjoying good health nearly to the last, a member of the Society of 
Friends, he was much respected and beloved and with him has 
died out the Quaker costume, once so well known in Norwich. 
Lord Cranworth who died on 13th October, 1902, had been 
for many years well known and deservedly popular in the county 
in which he had done such active work, especially as President of 
the County Council. When the new year’s honours for 1899 were 
announced it was felt that none were more deserved than the 
peerage for Mr. Gurdon. In early life Lord Cranworth had been 
an active volunteer officer and before his elevation to the House of 
Lords he sat for twelve years in the House of Commons. 
Mr. John Nigel Gurney, who died October, 26th, 1902, was 
the eldest son of the late John Gurney of Sprowston, to whom the 
members of our Society owe so much for the munificent and 
thoughtful care, with which he started the scheme for converting 
a prison into the splendid building in which the Natural History 
collections are now housed. Mr. Nigel Gurney, who was born in 
1874, was of a retiring disposition and his interest in Natural 
History was rather that of a sportsman than a man of science, but 
he was always glad to help forward the work in which other 
members of his family were actively engaged. At the time of his 
death Mr. Gurney filled the office of High-Sheriff of the County. 
Dr. John Lowe died at his residence, Oatlands Wood, Weybridge, 
on 12th December, 1902, he had been for upwards of thirty years 
a member of our Society and had during that time contributed 
many valuable papers to our Transactions, among which we may 
mention his lists of Norfolk Fishes and wayside Botany in Norwich. 
John Lowe was born at The Old Place, Sleaford, and after having 
been a pupil to his uncle Dr. Harvey of that town, studied at 
Edinburgh, at which university he gained the gold medal awarded 
for the best herbarium of Scotch flowering plants. On leaving 
Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. with honours in 1857, he 
took the diplomas of M.B.C.S., Eng. and L.S.A., and commenced 
practice in Lynn. In 1859 he was appointed honorary surgeon to 
the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital, which post he filled until the 
increase of his private practice precluded his holding it longer. In 
1871 he was appointed medical attendant at Sandringham and was 
