Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

SIR JOHN MURRAY (1841– )

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 42 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

SIR See also:JOHN See also:MURRAY (1841– )  , See also:British geographer and naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Coburg, See also:Ontario, See also:Canada, on the 3rd of See also:March 1841, and after some years' See also:local schooling studied in See also:Scotland and on the See also:Continent . He was then engaged for some years in natural See also:history See also:work at See also:Bridge of See also:Allan . In 1868 he visited See also:Spitsbergen on a whaler, and in 1872, when the voyage of the " Challenger " was projected, he was appointed one of the naturalists to the expedition . At the conclusion of the voyage he was made See also:principal assistant in See also:drawing up the scientific results, and in 1882 he became editor of the Reports, which were completed in 1896 . He compiled a See also:summary of the results, and was See also:part-author of the Narrative of the Cruise and of the See also:Report on Deep-See also:sea Deposits . He also published numerous important papers on oceanography and marine See also:biology . In 1898 he was made K.C.B., and the received many distinctions from the See also:chief scientific See also:societies of the See also:world . Apart from his work in connexion with the " Challenger " Reports, he went in 188o and 1882 on expeditions to explore the See also:Faeroe Channel, and between 1882 and 1894 was the See also:prime mover in various biological investigations in Scottish See also:waters . In 1897, with the generous See also:financial assistance of Mr Laurence Pullar and a See also:staff of specialists, he began a bathymetrical survey of the fresh-See also:water lochs of Scotland, the results of which, with a See also:fine See also:series of illustrations and maps, were published in 1910 in six volumes .

End of Article: SIR JOHN MURRAY (1841– )
[back]
SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY MURRAY (1837– )
[next]
MURREE

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.