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Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray

1812–78

Lawyer, entomologist, and botanist. Practised law in Edinburgh; later moved to London. Assistant secretary to the Royal Horticultural Society, 1861; member of the council from 1865; member of the scientific committee from 1868. An expert on insects harmful to crops. In entomology, specialised in the Coleoptera; in botany, in the Coniferae.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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