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numerous friendships resulted in the collections under his 
charge being considerably augmented. While he was 
thoroughly familiar with the various branches of natural 
history, the fishes and reptiles seem to have received greatest 
attention. His ‘ Introduction to the Study of the Fishes ’ 
is a standard work, which has been an indispensable handbook 
to the naturalist ; while his contributions to The Challenger 
reports and his works on Gigantic Land Tortoises, etc., are all 
of world-wide reputation. Not only was Dr. Gunther a speci- 
alist in these subjects, but he was a very able field naturalist. 
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SIR JOHN MURRAY— 1841-1914. 
We much regret to record that Sir John Murray was killed 
in a motor accident near Edinburgh on March 16th. Sir 
John was probably the foremost oceanographist in the world. 
He was born in Canada, and came to Scotland at the age of 
17, and studied at the Edinburgh University. At 27 he went 
to the Arctic in a Scottish whaler, in the capacity of naturalist, 
and eventually did his excellent work in connection with the 
famous Challenger voyage between 1872 and 1876. He then 
had charge of the collections, and paid particular attention to 
deep-sea deposits. It was largely due to his enterprize and 
enthusiasm that the fifty large volumes containing the results 
of that expedition were published. He had considerable 
experience in Polar exploration, and more recently undertook 
some valuable work in connection with a bathymetrical 
survey of the Scottish fresh water lochs. 
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FREDERICK BRITTAIN— 1836-1914. 
Frederick Brittain was one of the founders of the Sheffield 
Naturalists’ Club. He was its first Hon. Secretarv, Dr. Sorby 
being the first President. He wrote the article on the Botany 
of the district in the Sheffield Handbook of the British Asso- 
ciation, and contributed various articles to The Naturalist. 
He also lectured to the local society on Desmids and Diatoms, 
Insect-catching Plants, the Natural History of Tangier, and 
the Foraminifera. He studied plant structures and animal 
parasites, microscopic slides of which he had a good collection. 
He was President of the Sheffield Naturalists’ Club in 1878, 
and of the Literary and Philosophical Society in 1883-4. Mr. 
Brittain was for many years a member of the Advisory Com- 
mittee to the Board of Trade, was an Alderman for fourteen 
years, and also a Magistrate. He was also a member of the 
General Committee of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. 
Naturalist, 
