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Authorised form of name	Murray; George Robert Milne (1858 - 1911); botanist and algologist
Dates	1858 - 1911
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Arbroath, Forfarshire, Scotland
Date of birth	11 November 1858
Place of death	Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Scotland
Date of death	16/12/1911
Occupation	botanist and algologist
Research field	Botany
Activity	Education: Arbroath high school; studied under Anton de Bary at Strasbourg (1875) Career: Assistant in the botanical department at the British Museum looking after the the cryptogamic collections (1876); edited 'Phycological Memoirs, being Researches Made in the Botanical Department of the British Museum' (1892-1895); became keeper of the botanical department at the British Museum (1895); naturalist to the solar eclipse expedition to the West Indies (1886); appointed lecturer on botany at St George's Hospital medical school (1882-1886); and to the Royal Veterinary College (1890-1895);director of the civilian scientific staff of the national Antarctic expedition in HMS Discovery, under Captain R. F. Scott (1901); retired from his post at the British Museum (1905) owing to ill health. Memberships: FLS (1878), VP ( 1899)
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	03/06/1897
Age at election	39
Proposer	William Carruthers; John Wesley Judd; George Albert Boulenger; Charles Baron Clarke; Daniel Oliver; John Murray; William Roberts;William Henry Flower; Joseph Dalton Hooker; Daniel Oliver; Philip Lutley Sclater; Henry Woodward; Sydney Howard Vines
Relationships	Parents: George Murray (b. 1814), a tradesman, and Helen Margaret Sayles (b. 1819). Brother: Alexander Stuart Murray (1841–1904), keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum. Spouse: Helen (d. 1902), daughter of William Welsh of Walker's Barns and Boggieshallow, Brechin, Forfarshire (1884) Children: One son and one daughter.
PublishedWorks	RCN 56511 RCN 27445 RCN 59362 RCN 56510
OtherInfo	Known for his work on marine algae. He reported on the discovery of at least one new species of phytoplankton. Investigated salmon disease and published papers on the subject (1882-1885).
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series B 1912-1913 vol 86 pp xxi-xxiii signed by L F and W C
Code	NA1021

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1897/19	Murray, George Robert Milne: certificate of election to the Royal Society
EC/1897/20	Murray, George Robert Milne: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/17/33	Letter from George Murray to Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society	20 November 1895
MM/17/34	Letter from George Murray to Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society	20 January 1896
NLB/24/781	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George Robert Milne Murray, Fellow of the Royal Society	10 July 1902
NLB/6/559	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George Robert Milne Murray	31 May 1892
NLB/6/517	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George Robert Milne Murray	26 May 1892
RR/16/214	Referee's report by William Abbott Herdman, on a paper ['On a method of using the tow-net as an opening and closing tow-net'] by George Robert Milne Murray	7 January 1905
RR/15/338	Referee's report by George Robert Milne Murray, on a paper 'The seed-fungus of lolium temulentum. L. the darnel, or poisonous rye-grass' by E M Freeman	July 1902
NLB/15/725	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	24 November 1897
RR/16/372	Referee's report by George Robert Milne Murray, on a paper 'Endophytic adaptation shown by erysiphe graminis DC. under cultural conditions' by E S Salmon	May 1905
NLB/16/838	Copy letter from Michael Foster, to George R M Murray, Fellow of the Royal Society, Willow House, The Green, Ealing, W.	17 June 1898
NLB/16/859	Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Geo [George] R M Murray, Fellow of the Royal Society	21 June 1898
NLB/17/119	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George Robert Milne Murray, and Vernon Herbert Blackman, Fellows of the Royal Society	12 July 1898
NLB/16/809	Copy letter from Edwin Ray Lankester (Chairman of the Zoology Committee) and W T Thiselton-Dyer, to Professor Michael Foster	14 June 1898
NLB/18/102	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to G R M Murray, Fellow of the Royal Society	16 January 1899
NLB/16/883	Copy letter from Michael Foster, to George R M Murray, Willow Green, The Green, Ealing, W.	28 June 1898
NLB/17/115	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Treasurer of the Linnean Society, Burlington House	20 July 1898
NLB/19/411	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr George Robert Milne Murray, Fellow of the Royal Society	26 September 1899
NLB/19/470	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George Robert Milne Murray, Fellow of the Royal Society	10 October 1899
NLB/22/708	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [George Robert Milne] Murray, Fellow of the Royal Society	28 June 1901
NLB/27/469	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George Robert Milne Murray, Fellow of the Royal Society	2 October 1903
NLB/30/136	Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to George Robert Milne Murray, Fellow of the Royal Society	3 February 1905
NLB/30/255	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George Robert Milne Murray, Fellow of the Royal Society	20 February 1905
NLB/30/664	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George Robert Milne Murray, Fellow of the Royal Society	3 May 1905
NLB/35/433	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]	31 May 1907
NLB/37/45	Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to George [Robert Milne] Murray, 32 Market Square, Stonehaven	Undated
NLB/44/858	Copy letter from Theodore E James to George Murray FRS, 2 Bridgefield Terrace, Stonehaven, NB	2 December 1911
RR/13/305	Referee's report by George Robert Milne Murray, on a paper 'On the biology of stereum hirsutum (Fr.)' by Harry Marshall Ward	29 November 1897
RR/14/73	Letter from Michael Foster, to Edwin Ray Lankester, regarding a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman	nd [1898]
RR/14/266	Referee's report by George Robert Milne Murray, on a paper 'Onygena equina, Willd., a horn-destroying fungus' by Harry Marshall Ward	nd [May 1899]
RR/16/102	Referee's report by George Robert Milne Murray, on a paper 'Cultural experiments with 'Biologic Forms' of the Erysiphaceae' by Ernest S Salmon	January 1904
RR/14/68	Referee's report by John Murray, on a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman	24 May 1898
NLB/17/66	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society	11 July 1898
RR/14/70	Letter from William Abbott Herdman, to Edwin Ray Lankester, regarding a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman	1 June 1898
NLB/19/522	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George Robert Milne Murray, Fellow of the Royal Society	24 October 1899
RR/10/37	Referee's report by George Robert Milne Murray, on a paper 'Studies on some new micro-organisms obtained from air' by Percy Faraday Frankland	7 April 1887
RR/14/67	Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman	13 May 1898
RR/10/38	Letter from George Robert Milne Murray, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Studies on some new micro-organisms obtained from air' by Percy Faraday Frankland	7 April 1887
NLB/16/884	Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Secretaries, Linnean Society, Burlington House, W.	28 June 1898
RR/14/72	Letter from George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman, to Michael Foster, regarding a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman	20 June 1898
RR/14/45	Referee's report by George Robert Milne Murray, on a paper 'Contributions to our knowledge of the Fucaceae: their life-history and cytology' by John Bretland Farmer and John Lloyd Williams	27 June 1898
RR/14/71	Referee's report by Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, on a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman	18 June 1898
AP/73/15	Unpublished paper, 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman	1898
RR/14/69	Referee's report by William Abbott Herdman, on a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman	nd [1898]
RR/14/74	Letter from Edwin Ray Lankester, to Mr Harrison, regarding a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman	23 June 1898
RR/14/75	Letter from George Robert Milne Murray, to Michael Foster, regarding a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman	23 June 1898
MC/17	Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1897-1899
NLB/44/191	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to George R [Robert] M [Milne] Murray FRS, 2 Bridgefield Terrace, Stonehaven	24 May 1911

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