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cnllcd upon hiin to pursue. At the same lime, it must be allowed 

 that the study of medicine and surgery had no inconsiderable 

 attraction for him. lie always acted on the " give-and-take " 

 principle. As a student at Edinburgh, he rendered great assist- 

 ance to those of his follows who worked at scientific subjects. 

 Manv of the internal parasites described by one of our Fellows, and 

 published in the Society's ' Transactions ' for 1^58, were obtained 

 from water-birds shot by Mr. jNIurray in the Firth of Forth. A 

 remarkable cestodo {Dipln/llohothnnm stemmacejihahim) and a 

 species of fluke (Disfoma campula), both new to science, were in 

 like manner obtained from a Porpoise which Mr. Murray killed 

 off the Island of May in April 1855. The birds and mammals 

 that fell to his gun were forwarded to the Curator of the Edin- 

 burgh University Anatomical Museum ; and there they were 

 used for the purposes of dissection ; whilst as possible "hosts " 

 their examination also led to the discovery of several new 

 helminths. Mr. Murray never allowed either trouble or expense 

 to stand in the way of any cause he had at heart. At Brighton 

 he promoted the formation and working of scientific Societies, 

 a])art from those of a professional kind ; and he was especially 

 helpful to young and rising artists. Of his medical writings we 

 do not speak ; but, as coming fairly within the borderland of 

 anthropology, w'e may mention his interesting account of an 

 hitherto undcscribed malformation of the lower lip occurring in 

 four members of one family. Others of the eight children of the 

 same family exhibited different kinds of oral peculiarity or dete- 

 rioration ; and yet another child displayed webbed fingers on both 

 bauds. Mr. Murray had a particular liking for teratological 

 investigation; aud on one occasion he showed the writer of this 

 notice a curious instance of double hand, in whicli case also re- 

 dundancy of structure of the forearm appeared to be involved. 

 The subject of this abnormality was a policeman's wife. Her left 

 arm supported eight perfectly formed fingers, imparting to the 

 Land an unusual stretch and equivalent power of grasp. The 

 thumbs were altogether wanting. Photographs of this malfor- 

 mation have been privately distributed. Not unnaturally Mr. 

 Murray's winning and sympathetic manners — coupled, as they 

 \\ ere, with a niasterful knowledge of his profession, with refined 

 taste^; and with a clear judgment — soon won for him the esteem 

 of his fellow practitioners and the confidence of the public. In 

 this way he was not long in acquiring something more than an 

 ordinary ct)mpetency, part of which was devoted to the purchase 

 of choice w orks of art, and part to the formation of a valuable 

 library, lie wished by every means in his power to promote art, 

 science, and literature. P( rsonal advantage was not the main- 

 spring of his action. When recently he compounded as a Life 

 Member of the Lijineau Society, he remarked to a friend that he 

 did so in the hope that his contribution would benefit the cause 

 which the Society was foremost in promoting ; if he could not 



