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times, while waiting for a reaction, or after work, Murray 
would tell us stories of the great expedition—how the first 
living Globigerina (Hastigerina murrayi) seen in all its glory 
of vesicular protoplasm expanded far beyond its tiny shell 
was picked up in a teaspoon from a small boat during a dead 
calm in mid-ocean; and how the naval officers wrote their 
names with their fingers in letters of fire on the phosphorescing 
giant Pyrosoma (over 4 feet long) as it lay on the deck at night ; 
how they “iced ”’ their champagne in the tropics by plunging 
the bottles into the trawlful of ooze just brought up from the 
abyss, and still retaining its abyssal low temperature; and, 
finally, he would sing us a most amusing song—we never knew 
whether he had invented it or not—about a Chinaman eating 
a little white dog. | 
A few years later, after Sir Wyville Thomson’s death 
in 1882, Murray had supreme control of both the collections 
and the editing of the Reports; and of the “ Office,” by that 
time moved to more commodious quarters at 32, Queen Street, 
which was the scene of his labours for many years, and where I 
for a time held the post of ‘ Assistant-Naturalist,” and saw 
Murray practically every day. 
When I first knew John Murray, although he was an older 
man, we were really in one respect fellow-students, as we 
attended together Professor Archibald Geikie’s course on 
Geology. One very pleasant and not the least instructive part 
of the course at that time was the series of geological walks 
personally conducted by the professor, not merely Saturday 
walks in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, but also longer 
expeditions of a week or ten days at the end of the session, to 
localities of special geological interest further afield, such as 
the Highlands or the Island of Arran. I well remember one 
such long excursion to the Grampian and the Cairngorm 
Mountains and Speyside, when we had, as somewhat senior 
members of the party—in addition to Professor Geikie— 
