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Nilidulidce. According to the Royal Society's Catalogue he 

 published thirty-eight separate papers from 185'2 to 1863. 

 Andrew Murray had great scientific experience. In 1869 he 

 accompanied Sir Joseph (then Dr.) Hooker to the Botanical 

 Congress at St. Pelersburgh, as one of the representatives of 

 British science, his services there being complimentarily 

 acknowledged by the presentation, by the Emperor Alexander, 

 of a malachite table of great beauty. In 1871 he was entrusted 

 with the superintendence of the arrangements connected with 

 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 expedition to Salt Lake and California with various 

 scientific objects. His well-known work on the 'Geogra- 

 phical Distribution of Mammals' was published in 1866, 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 coloured u)aps of distribution ; 

 showing at a glance the result of his own careful research. 

 Of Andrew Murray as a botanist, and of his connections 

 with the Royal Horticultural Society and various botanical 

 publications, we need not write, as it is in his course as an 

 economic entomologist that we are most 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 Skip- 

 jack, or Wireworm and the Slug,' which, though published 

 without his knowledge, may be looked upon as his first con- 

 tribution to Econon)ic Entomology. 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 P^conomic Entomology 

 was placed in his hands officially. From the first he devoted 

 himself unceasingly to the task of making this as perfect as 

 was possible with our present knowledge, and even when on 

 his American expedition he lelt the threads for its continua- 

 tion. Himself an accomplished draughtsman, and a patient 

 worker and compiler, with a great love lor the subject and of 

 general scientific research, he spared no pains in his work, 

 whether in availing hin)self of scientific co-operation, or in 



