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See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
MURRAY, See also:SIR See also:JOHN (1841– ) , See also:British geographer and naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Coburg, See also:Ontario, See also:Canada, on the 3rd of See also:March 1841, and after some years' See also:local schooling studied in See also:Scotland and on the See also:Continent. He was then engaged for some years in natural See also:history See also:work at See also:Bridge of See also:Allan. In 1868 he visited See also:Spitsbergen on a whaler, and in 1872, when the voyage of the " Challenger " was projected, he was appointed one of the naturalists to the expedition. At the conclusion of the voyage he was made See also:principal assistant in See also:drawing up the scientific results, and in 1882 he became editor of the Reports, which were completed in 1896. He compiled a See also:summary of the results, and was See also:part-author of the Narrative of the Cruise and of the See also:Report on Deep-See also:sea Deposits. He also published numerous important papers on oceanography and marine See also:biology. In 1898 he was made K.C.B., and the received many distinctions from the See also:chief scientific See also:societies of the See also:world. Apart from his work in connexion with the " Challenger " Reports, he went in 188o and 1882 on expeditions to explore the See also:Faeroe Channel, and between 1882 and 1894 was the See also:prime mover in various biological investigations in Scottish See also:waters. In 1897, with the generous See also:financial assistance of Mr Laurence Pullar and a See also:staff of specialists, he began a bathymetrical survey of the fresh-See also:water lochs of Scotland, the results of which, with a See also:fine See also:series of illustrations and maps, were published in 1910 in six volumes.
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