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devoted to it, and his friends and fellow-workers in the same 

 wide field, his interest was unfailing in their welfare, and the 

 advance of scientific progress. He was a man of highly 

 refined and accomplished mind, as well as of great scientific 

 attainments, and will be greatly missed from the ranks of our 

 leading naturalists, as well as by those less gifted than 

 himself, whose progress he aided by his encouragement and 

 sound counsel. 



Mr. Andrew Murray, F.L.S. — It was with much regret 

 we received intelligence of the death of this accomplished 

 naturalist, which took place at his residence, 67, Bedford 

 Gardens, Kensington, on the 10th of January last. His 

 health had not been strong since a severe iUness following 

 on his return from his American expedition of 1873. In the 

 course of the last season further indisposition followed, and he 

 gradually sank ; but so assiduously occupied with his labour 

 of scieutific usefulness to his latest days, that few but those 

 intimately acquainted with him were prepared for hearing of 

 their close. Mr. Murray was the eldest son of William 

 Murray, Esq., of Conland and Duncrievie, N.B., and was 

 born in Edinburgh, on the 19th of February, 1812. Few 

 particulars are known to us of his life in Edinburgh, where 

 he resided till 1860; but as with most lovers of natural 

 science this predilection asserted itself in his early years. 

 He was educated for the lavv, but devoted souie attention to 

 the study of medicine, and attended the Edinburgh scientific 

 lectures, of which, judging by the reminiscences of his later 

 life, he must have been an attentive hearer and careful 

 analyst. During the last iew years of his life in the northern 

 capital he was very active scientifically. In 1858 he was 

 elected ])resident of both the Botanical Society and Physical 

 Society; and just previous to his removal to London he 

 contributed an elaborate paper to the Royal Society of 

 Ediuburgh on the "Pediculi Infesting the Various Races of 

 Man," which gave minute descriptions, and the specific 

 variation of these creatures relative to the subject then under 

 discussion, as to how far unity of species in the parasite 

 showed iniity of species in the animal preyed on. In 1860, 

 as has been said, Mr. Murray came to London, and was 

 appointed assistant-secretary to the Royal Horticultural 

 Society. It was from this time that he devoted hiuiself more 

 especially to his work as a scientific botanist and entomolo- 

 gist, and became celebrated in the former as the monographer 

 of the ConiJercBj in the latter as the monographer of the 



