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Henderson the shipowner, and brought his wife back to Edinburgh, 

 where their home became one of its intellectual centres. P^or many 

 years of his later life. Sir -John and Lady Murray, with their family of 

 two boys and three girls, Vned in a roomy house on the outskirts of 

 Edinburgh, which he had ciu'istened "Challenger Lodge." It was 

 characteristic of the man that his unfailing insight enabled him to 

 established a most sympathetic relation Avith his children, and caused 

 him to use original methods, based on great independence and liberty, 

 to dexelop them into efficient and self reliant personalities. 



Turning into his own aA^enue, on March 16, 1914, Murray's auto- 

 mobile skidded and capsized, killing him instantly. Such an end, 

 always wished for by him, came as a shock to his friends in many 

 lands, whose admiration for the naturalist was only exceeded bv their 

 love of a very human fellow-man. 



G. R. Agassiz. 



ANDREW ROWLAND RUSSELL (1846-1915) 



Fellow in Class I, Section 4, 1892. 



Andrew Howland Russell was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 

 on the 24th of December, 1846. His father, Andrew Leach Russell, 

 and his mother, Hannah White Davis, were both of the old Pilgrim 

 stock. He was educated first in the public schools of Plymouth, 

 then spend two or three years at Philips Exeter Academy. In 1865 

 he was one of the first class to enter the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, but did not complete the course because in 1867 he 

 received an appointment to the Military Academy from which he 

 was graduated fourth in his class in 1871. 



He was then promoted to Second Lieutenant in the Third Cavalry, 

 in 1876 to First Lieutenant of Ordnance, in 1888 to Captain, 1901 to 

 Major, 1895 to Lieutenant Colonel, 1907 to Colonel. From July to 

 November, 1898, he held a Volunteer Commission as Major and Chief 

 Ordnance Officer; from 1901 to 1904, he was Chief Ordnance Officer 

 of the Division of the Philippines with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. 



As a Cavalry Officer, in 1871-1872, he served with his regiment in 

 Arizona and Nebraska; in 1873-1874 on the Wheeler Expedition for 

 Surveys west of the 100th Meridian, in New Mexico, Colorado and 



