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Entomologist, becoming celebrated in the former as the monographer of 

 the Coniferce, and in the latter as the monographer of the Nitidulidce. 

 From, 1852 to 1863 he published thirty-eight separate papers. In 1866 

 he published his well-known work on the " Geographical Distribution of 

 Mammals," in which he bestows especial attention on the habitat during 

 geological as well as glacial and present epochs, with copious synonymic 

 lists, including locality past and present, geographical classification and 

 colored maps of distribution, showing the result of his own careful 

 research. In 1869 he accompanied Sir Joseph Hooker to the Botanical 

 Congress of St. Petersburgh, as one of the representatives of British 

 Science, his services there being com pli mentality acknowledged by the 

 presentation by the Emperor Alexander of a malachite table of great 

 beauty. In 187 1 he was entrusted^ with the superintendence of the 

 arrangements connected with the British contributions to the International 

 Exhibition of Moscow of the following year. He was Secretary to the 

 Oregon Conifer Collection Committee, and in 1873 undertook an expedi- 

 tion to Salt Lake and California, with various scientific objects. On his 

 return from the West he visited Canada and spent a kw days with some 

 relatives in London, Ont., during which time we were happy in making 

 his acquaintance and of forming with him a warm friendship which only 

 terminated with his life. -During his short sojourn in Utah he contracted 

 an illness which greatly increased in severity, and, indeed, almost prostrated 

 him on his return to Europe. Subsequently he rallied and for several 

 years enjoyed moderate health. In the course of last season further 

 indisposition followed, and he gradually sank, but so assiduously occupied 

 with his labor of scientific usefulness to his latest days, that few were 

 prepared to hear of their close. 



But it is with Andrew Murray as an Entomologist that we are most 

 deeply interested. In early life he aided his relative, John Murray (Lord 

 High Advocate), in his wish to provide some practically useful reading 

 for village schools, by writing the little pamphlet, " The Skipjack, or 

 Wire-worm and the Slug," which, though published without his know- 

 ledge, may be looked upon as his first contribution to Economic Ento- 

 mology. He contributed many papers on Entomology to various scientific 

 societies and publications, both home and foreign, but his great work was 

 done in the last ten years of his life, which he devoted to illustrating the 

 study of insects in its natural and practical bearings. It was in 1868 that 

 the charge of receiving and arranging a government collection of. Eco- 



