British botanist, born at Arbroath on the 11th of November 1858. He was the younger brother of A. S. Murray, and was educated at Arbroath and at Strassburg University. As keeper of the department of botany at the British Museum his researches were principally devoted to algae and cryptogams, in the pursuit of which he made several voyages, notably in 1901 as scientific director to Capt. R. F. Scott’s Antarctic expedition. He died at Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, on the 16th of December 1911.
