OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15560, 18 March 1914, Page 7

OBITUARY.

SIR JOHN MURRAY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. London, March 16. To-day Sir John Murray, the British geographer and naturalist, who was a member of the Challenger expedition, was killed in a motoring accident near Granton. His daughter, Miss Rhoda Murray, was seriously injured. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. * Sir John Murray was born i.T Canada, and studied in Scotland and on the Continent. He was then engaged for some years in natural, history work at Bridge of Allan. In 1868 he visited Spitzbergen on a whaler, and in 1872, when the voyage of the Challenger was projected, he was appointed one of the naturalists to the expedition. To him was principally due the compiling of the results of-.the cruise. He also published numerous important papers on oceanography and marine biology. In 1898 he was made K.C-8., and he received many distinctions from the chief scientific societies of the world. Between 1880 and 1882 he went on expeditions to explore the Faeroe Channel, and between 1882 arid 1894 he was the prime mover in various biological investigations in Scottish waters. In 1897 he began a bathymetrical survey of Scottish fresh-water lochs, the results of which were published in 1910. He took a leading part in the expedition of 1910 to explore the north of the Atlantic Ocean