George Robert Milne Murray. 



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" Oceana ") and went in the month of November to a part of the Atlantic, 

 300 miles west of the Tearaght Light, off Dingle Bay, Ireland, where the 

 depth quickly increases from 500 to 1800 fathoms, to collect material at 

 numerous measured intervals between the surface and the ocean-bed ; on this 

 expedition he was accompanied by V. H. Blackmail, J. W. Gregory, 

 L. Fletcher, his Museum colleagues, and also by J. E. S. Moore and 

 Louis Sambon. That part of the Atlantic is so far from the usual lines of 

 traffic that no other vessel was sighted dining a space of ten days. Just 

 as the work was being finished, a. storm came on of such violence that a 

 train on the nearest land was blown off the rails ; the captain allowed the 

 tug to run before the gale and eventually made for Queenstown, where the 

 vessel was detained on account of the storm for thirty-six hours before the 

 return voyage could be continued. 



In ]901 Murray, as Scientific Director of the "Discovery" Xational 

 Antarctic Expedition (under Captain Scott), was extremely busy with the 

 provision of stores and apparatus ; further, he edited the ' Antarctic Manual,' 

 which was prepared for the use of the staff and published ; he sailed with 

 the " Discovery " from Gravesend and continued the organisation of the 

 scientific work until the arrival at Cape Town, farther than which his 

 duties in London would not allow him to travel. For a year or two 

 previously he had been in unsatisfactory health as a result of repeated 

 attacks of influenza, and it had been hoped that the sea-voyage would act 

 as a restorative, but the heavy strain of the work he had undertaken proved 

 too much for his weakened constitution. Then came two heavy blows : his wife 

 died suddenly, from heart failure, in 1902, and his only brother, Alexander 

 Stuart Murray, after a very short illness (pneumonia), in 1904 ; his brother 

 had been Keeper of Greek and Boman Antiquities in the British Museum 

 since 1886. Murray's health then broke down completely, and in 1905 he 

 retired to Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, where he passed the brief remainder 

 of his life ; the immediate cause of death, which took place in his fifty-fourth 

 year, on December 16, 1911, was cancer in the throat. He has left a son and 

 a daughter. Murray was an excellent and cheery companion, very kind- 

 hearted, and always ready with sympathy and help for those who needed 

 them. 



L. F. 



W, C. 



