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Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased. 



proportioned, with light hair and blue eyes, his foreign ancestry coming oat in 

 a somewhat Scandinavian or North Dutch appearance. In politics he was 

 a keen Unionist and Imperialist, but, beyond occasionally presiding at the 

 Harpenden meetings of the party, he was not a demonstrative politician. 



He joined the Zoological Society in 1880, and served on the Council in 

 1898-1900. He was elected a Fellow of the Eoyal Society in 1894. 



He married in 1882 Lucy Marianne, elder daughter of the late Canon 

 0. W. Davys, Eector of Wheathampstead, and had two sons — of whom the 

 younger has fallen on behalf of his country and the elder is now serving — 

 and three daughters. 



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SIE JOHN MUEEAY, K.C.B., 1841-1914* 



Sir John Murray was born on March 3, 1841, at Coburg, Ontario. He 

 came of one of those Scottish families that have done so much for Canada, 

 and, indeed, throughout his life no one would have mistaken him for 

 anything but a Scot. His father, Eobert Murray, an accountant, had left 

 Scotland seven years before and settled in Upper Canada, where during the 

 troublous times of the Mackenzie Eebellion he took an active part in 

 Canadian politics. John was for a time at the Public School of London, 

 Ontario, and later at Victoria College, Coburg. When he was seventeen years 

 old he left Canada and, as he has himself reminded us, he then for the first 

 time saw the sea whose problems he was destined to make his own. When 

 he left that early home, he says, " to find another amongst my relatives in 

 Scotland, I had not yet seen the ocean. The voyage across the Atlantic 

 made a great impression on me, so different was the salt, rolling sea from 

 the great fresh-water lakes with which I had up to that time been familiar, 

 and I was fascinated by the operations of the officers on the bridge when 

 taking the altitude of the sun at each mid-day." On witnessing the rise 

 and fall of the tide for the first time on the West Coast of Scotland, the 

 impression was still more profound. 



John Murray found a new home amongst his Scottish relatives, one of 

 whom was John Macfarlane, his maternal grandfather, at Coney hill, 



* In writing this short memoir of my friend I have been greatly helped by 

 Mr. Laurence Pullar, of Bridge of Allan and Bridge of Earn, by Dr. Hugh Eobert 

 Mill, by Dr. J. Sutherland Black and by Mr. James Chumley, who for many years 

 was Sir John Murray's chief assistant. 



