Andrew Dickson Murray

Andrew Dickson Murray ( born February 19, 1812 in Edinburgh, † January 10, 1878 in Kensington ( London) ) was a Scottish botanist, zoologist and biogeographer. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " A.Murray ". Previously was also the abbreviation " A.Murr. " In use.

Life and work

1857 Murray Professor of Natural History at New College, Edinburgh, and in the same year a member of the Royal Society. In the years 1858 and 1859 he was president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Physical Society. After moving to London in 1861 he became a member of the Linnean Society of London, and deputy secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society, whose scientific director, he was elected in 1877.

For the Horticultural Society 1868 he put a collection of pests and beneficial insects, and published in 1877 the results of this research.

Works

  • Botanical expedition to Oregon, 1849-1859
  • Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland, 1853
  • The Pines and Firs of Japan, 1863
  • The Pinetum Britannicum, parts 4-37, 1863-1884.
  • The Geographical Distribution of Mammals, 1866
  • Economic Entomology, 1877

Swell

  • Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names. 13th edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.
  • Murray, Andrew Dickson ( Scotland- England 1812-1878 ) in Charles H. Smith: Some Biogeographers, Evolutionists and Ecologists: Chrono- Biographical Sketches
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