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teristic plants and animals of the plankton and of the 

 " oozes." As Murray's final contribution to science it is an 

 appropriate summary of his life-work, and will do much to 

 spread the knowledge of his discoveries and to make his 

 name widely known amongst intelligent readers of popular 

 works on science. 



If I try now to give a personal impression of John Murray 

 as I remember him in earlier life, I picture him as a short, 

 thick-set, broad-shouldered man, with a finely shaped head 

 and very forcible -looking blue eyes under rather shaggy 

 eyebrows. His hair was fair, somewhat reddish on the 

 whiskers and moustache. Later in life, when his hair was 

 turning white, he wore a closely- clipped beard. It was a 

 strong, determined-looking face, with those arresting eyes, 

 making him a noticeable and dominant figure in any 

 assembly. But the eyes could dance with fun on occasions, 

 and his good Scot's tongue was kindly as well as outspoken. 

 He remained sturdy and energetic to the last, although he was 

 seventy-three years of age a few days before the motor 

 accident in which he was instantaneously killed on March 16, 

 1914. 



John Murray was a man of upright character and of down- 

 right speech. He was apt to tell you what he thought of you, 

 or anyone else, in plain and emphatic language without fear 

 or favour. Some people of more conventional habits may 

 have been shocked or offended at times ; but the better one 

 knew him the more one came to appreciate and admire 

 his transparent honesty of thought and speech, his most 

 uncommon " common sense," his purity of motive and 

 directness of purpose, and his genuine kindness and good- 

 heartedness, especially to all the young scientific men who 

 worked with or under him, and whom he in large measure 

 trained. He was absolutely free from all guile and humbug 

 of any kind, and had no sympathy with intrigue or vacillation. 



I may appropriately conclude this short account of John 



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