56 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
the past three months shooting over the moors nearly every 
day ! Some people say even that I am a wonder! but who can 
tell what I'll be like in two years. Men over seventy years are 
likely to break down, then what a nuisance I would be to 
everyone ! 
“TI would, of course, appreciate the honour, but honours 
are not worth much to an old man. The only question would 
be, a real service to Science, and would it be a duty. At my 
age it can hardly be a duty. I have no message to give to the 
world!! I honestly think some young scientific man would — 
do the trick very much better. Pll consider it. Pll be in London, | 
_ Piccadilly Hotel, the first ten days of December, and could 
perhaps see you. 
“TI really very much appreciate your desire to honour 
me. It is really very good of you. It is not quite out of the 
possible that I may be in the Pacific in 1914 in a boat of my 
own. I would have been there now had the cost not been much 
greater than I, at first, calculated.” 
At the inauguration of the new Zoological Laboratories 
of the University of Liverpool in November, 1905, Sir John 
Murray was one of the honoured guests of the University, and 
after the formal opening by the Earl of Onslow, Sir John gave 
a short address upon Oceanography, the first lecture to be 
delivered in the Zoology lecture theatre of the University. 
A few years later, in 1907, the University conferred upon him 
the Honorary degree of Doctor of Science. 
We now come to Sir John Murray’s last great scientific 
expedition—a four months’ cruise in the North Atlantic, in 
the summer of 1910—a very notable achievement for a man 
in his seventieth year. The investigating steamer “ Michael 
Sars,” was built by the Norwegian Government in 1900, on 
the lines of a large high-class trawler of about 226 tons, but 
specially fitted out for scientific work under the direction of 
