50 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Magazine and elsewhere, which deal with world-wide questions 
in Oceanography or in Physical Geography, such as the annual 
rainfall of the globe and its relation to the discharge of rivers, 
the effects of winds on the distribution of temperature in lochs, 
the annual range of temperature in the surface waters of the 
ocean, and the temperature of the floor of the ocean, on the 
height of the land and the depth of the ocean (1888), and on 
the depths, temperatures and marine deposits of the South 
Pacific Ocean (1906). j 
In 1897 Dr. John Murray (as he then was) formally opened — 
the present Biological Station at Millport and the associated 
Robertson Museum, and delivered an address on the marine 
biology of the Clyde district. He continued to take a lively 
interest in the affairs of this West Coast Biological Station, 
and frequently looked in there with scientific friends when on 
his cruises in the “ Medusa.” I recollect, for example, an 
occasion, when after dredging in Loch Fyne, we ran to Millport 
for the night, and the party mcluded Canon Norman, old Dr. 
David Robertson, Haeckel and the late Mr. Isaac Thompson, 
of this Society. He frequently had foreign men of science as 
his guests, and was, I think, especially friendly with the 
Scandinavians, such as Nansen, Hjort, Otto Pettersson the 
Swede, and C. G. Joh. Petersen the Dane. 
Murray’s oceanographic work was not limited to any 
particular region or special series of problems, but was world- 
wide, both in extent and subject matter. He was a great 
traveller, and had probably personally explored more of the 
oceanic waters of the globe than any other man. He had 
ranged from Spitzbergen in the North to the Antarctic Ice- 
barrier, dredging, trawling, tow-netting and sampling the 
waters and bottom deposits in every possible way. Even when 
travelling as an ordinary passenger on a liner, he would engage 
emigrants in the steerage to pump water daily from the sea 
through his silk nets, or would arrange with a bath-steward 
