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Although nearly 80 years of age, he retained all his faculties in apparent perfection, his eye- 

 sight being so well preserved that he could read ordinary print with the greatest ease. 

 He died after a short illness at his home, on the 11th day of December, 1877, at the ripe 

 age of 84 yeas. He was among the most genial and winning of men, with heart warm and 

 steadfast. Ifis temperate, well-ordered life preserved him in the full vigour of manhood far 

 beyond the years at which men ordinarily grow old. He had no dissipation but hard 

 work, no extravagance but lavish generosity to his friends and overflowing charity for the 

 poor. In his seventieth year of patient labour he wrote as his motto over his desk : 

 " Time is money ; I have none of either to spare." Thus this tii-eless man of science la- 

 boured to the end, laying down the work he loved so well after fourscore and four years of 

 labour and usefulness, only at the call of the Master. 



MR. ANDREW MURRAY, F. L. S. 



This accomplished naturalist died at his residence, 67 Bedford Gardens, Kensington, oft 

 the 10th of January last. Mr. Murray was the eldest son of Wm. Murray, Esq., and was 

 born in Edinburgh on the 19th of February, 1812, where he resided until 1860. In his 

 early years he manifested a fondness for natural science which strengthened as he matured. 

 He was educated for the law, and subsequently devoted some attention to the study of medi- 

 cine. During the last few years of his life in Edinburgh he laboured hard in the interests of 

 science ; in 1858 he was elected President of both the Botanical Society and Physical Society, 

 and just previous to his removal to London he contributed an elaborate paper to the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh, on the " Pediculi Infesting the Various Races of Man." In 1860 Mr. 

 jMurray came to London, and was appointed Assistant-Secretary to the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, and from this time he devoted himself to his work as a scientific Botanist and Ento- 

 mologist, becoming celebrated in the former as the monographer of the Coniferce, and in the 

 latter as the monographer of the Nitichilidce. From 1852 to 1863 he published thirty-eight 

 separate papers. 1866 he published his well-known work on the " Geographical Distribution 

 of JNTammals," in which he bestows especial attention on the habitat during geological as well 

 as glacial and present epochs, with copious synonymic lists, including locality past and pres- 

 ent, geographical classification and coloured maps of distribution, showing the result of his 

 own careful research. In 1869 he accompanied Sir Joseph Hooker to the Botanical Con- 

 gress of St. Petersburgh, as one of the representatives of British Science, his services there 

 being complimentarily acknowledged by the presentation by the Emperor Alexander of a 

 malachite table of great beauty. In 1871 he was entrusted with the superintendence of the 

 arrangements connected with the British contributions to the International Exhibition of 

 Moscow of the following year. He was Secretary to the Oregon Conifer Collection Commit- 

 tee, and in 1873 undertook an expedition to Salt Lake and California, with various scientific 

 objects. On his return from the West he visited Canada, and spent a few days with some 

 relatives in London, Ont., during which time we were happy in making his acquaintance and 

 of forming with him a warm friendship which only terminated with his life. During his 

 short sojourn in L^tah he contracted an illness which greatly increased in severity, and, in- 

 deed, almost prostrated him on his return to Europe. Subsequently he rallied and for several 

 years enjoyed moderate health. In the course of last season further indisposition followed, 

 and he gradually sank, but so assiduously occupied with his labour of scientific usefulness to 

 his latest days, that few were prepared to hear of their close. 



But it is with Andrew Murray as an Entomologist that we are most deeply interested. 

 In early life he aided his relative, John Murray (Lord High Advocate,) in his wish to pro- 

 vide some practically useful reading for village schools by writing the little pamphlet, The 

 Skipjack, or Wire-worm and the Slug," which, though published without his knowledge, may 

 be looked upon as his first contribution to Economic Entomologj . He contributed many papers 

 on Entomology to various scientific societies and publications, both home and foreign, but his 

 great work was done in the last ten years of his life, which he devoted to illustrating the 

 study of insects in its natural and practical bearings. It was in 1868 that the charge of re- 

 ceiving and arranging a government collection of Economic Entomology was placed in his 

 hands officially, and from the first he devoted himself unceasingly to the task of making this 

 as perfect as possible. Himself an accomplished draughtsman, and a patient worker and com- 

 piler, with a great love for the subject, he spared no pains in his work, whether in availing 

 himself of scientific co-operation or [in shaping the aid placed at his service by those lesst 



