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dressing, also, the roots very soon permeated through, and grew 
most luxuriantly. 
In my opinion—after two seasons’ trial of this manure—I con¬ 
sider it to he one of the most efficient, easy of application, sure and 
certain in its results. 
VII. The late Ahdbew Mubkay, E.L.S. 
Death has deprived the Eoyal Horticultural Society of one of 
its most accomplished and active supporters. Once Assistant- 
Secretary, then Member of Council, and up to the very last 
Scientific Director and Editor of this Journal, by the death of 
Mr. Andrew Murray, on the 9th January, a vacancy has been 
created in our ranks that will not be soon or easily filled. Those 
who knew him best can most readily understand how seriously he 
will be missed, though all who have come in contact with him will 
regret the absence of his kindly manner and the readiness he 
always exhibited to impart to others of the varied store of know¬ 
ledge he had accumulated during a long and active life devoted to 
the pursuit of science. But it was in his capacity as a member of 
the Scientific Committee that he rendered so much valuable service 
in the interests of horticulture. Difficult questions regarding the 
injurious operations of insects upon vegetation were always investi¬ 
gated by Mr. Murray with patience and intelligence, for it was as 
an entomologist that he in an especial manner won his scientific 
reputation. 
A brief sketch of his life seems appropriate in closing this 
number of the Journal, left unfinished by the death of its editor. 
He was born in Edinburgh, in the year 1812—the eldest son of 
"William Murray, of Conland, Perthshire. Erom his earliest years 
he evinced a remarkable inclination for the study of natural 
history, and though he was intended to follow the legal profession, 
and for some time indeed he was a Writer for the “ Signet,” yet 
his passionate love of Nature never wavered, and his anxiety 
to extend his knowledge led him to attend the Natural History 
Lectures connected with the College in Edinburgh, and thus the 
foundation was laid of the painstaking, patient, and exact habits of 
