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Murray, Charles Augustus
Person · 1806-1895

Sir Charles Augustus Murray was a British author and diplomat

Murray, Andrew
Person · 1812-1878

Andrew Dickson Murrary was a Scottish lawyer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist. Murray studied insects which caused crop damage, specialising in coleoptera. In botany, he specialised in Coniferae. He served as president of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh during 1858-59. Murray was a prominent opponent of the Darwin-Wallace model of natural selection. Murray believed that hybridisation was a better explanation for mimicry than natural selection. In 1860, Murray reviewed Darwin's On the Origin of Species in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Murphy, William
Person · fl 1955

Sweeper at ZSL London Zoo

Murphy, William
Person · 1902-

Temporary Helper at ZSL London Zoo

Murphy, P
Person · 1893-1925

Gatekeeper at ZSL London Zoo

Murie, James
Person · 1832-1925

Prosector at the Zoological Society of London 1865-1870

Person · 1792-1871

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871. He is noted for investigating and describing the Silurian, Devonian and Permian systems.