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number of drawings, &c. &c. which have been purchased 
by the French government. M. C. has again set out for 
Beypt.” 
Dr. John Murray. 
[From Tilloch’s Philosophical Magazine, July, 1820.} 
“It gives us much regret to have to announce this. month 
the death of that eminent chemist Dr. John Murray, of 
which they every where display, and from the f ree, clear- 
ness, and precision of their statements, most essentially con- 
tributed to advance chemistry to the high rank which it now 
holds among the liberal sciences. His very acute, vigour- 
ous, and comprehensive mind, has been most successfully 
exerted in arranging its numerous and daily multiplying 
details, defining its laws, and, above all, in attaching to it 
@ spirit of philosophical investigation, which, while it lays 
the best foundation for extending its practical application, 
tends at the same time to exalt its character, and dignify its 
ursuit. As a lecturer on chemistry, it is impossible to 
teacher was an uncommon faculty, arising from the great 
perspicuity and distinctness of his conceptions, of leading 
his hearers step by step through the whole process of the 
most complete investigation, with such admirable clearness, 
that they were induced to think that he was following out 
 @ natural order which could not be avoided, at the very 
time when he was exhibiting a specimen of the most refin- 
ed and subtle analysis. With him the student did not 
merely accumulate facts, note down.dry results, or stare at 
