George Robert Milne Murray
1858–1911
Botanist and algologist. Studied under Anton de Bary, 1875. Assistant, botanical department, British Museum, 1876; keeper, 1895. Lecturer on botany, St George’s Hospital medical school, 1882–6; Royal Veterinary College, 1890–5. Director of the civilian scientific staff of the national Antarctic expedition in HMS Discovery, 1901. Worked mainly on marine algae, fungi, and vegetable parasitism. Published three reports on the investigation of salmon disease, undertaken at the instance of Thomas Henry Huxley. FRS 1897.
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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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