Andrew Dickson Murray
Andrew Dickson Murray FRSE FLS (19 February 1812 , Edinburgh – 10 January 1878, Kensington) was a Scottish lawyer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist. Murray studied insects which caused crop damage, specialising in the Coleoptera. In botany, he specialised in the Coniferae, in particular the Pacific rim conifer species.
Murray practised law in Edinburgh until 1860, becoming a Writer to the Signet. Following the publication of his Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland he was appointed professor of natural science at New College in 1857, and elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh the same year.
In 1861 he moved to London, upon his appointment as Assistant Secretary to the Royal Horticultural Society (1860–5).
Murray was a prominent opponent of the Darwin-Wallace model of natural selection.
Works
- 1853 Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood and sons.
- 1861 On the pediculi infesting the different races of man Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb. 22: 567
- 1866 The Geographical Distribution of Mammals
- 1867 List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar , 1867 Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3rd series) 19: 167-179.
- 1870 On the geographical relations of the chief coleopterous faunae. J. Linn. Soc. 11: 1-89.
- 1877 Economic entomology Chapman and Hall,London.
References
- ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.
- Anonym 1878 [Murray, A.] Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 14 1877-78 215-216
- Anonym 1879 [Murray, A.] Petites Nouv. Ent. 2 (Nr. 190) 207.
- Kraatz, G. 1878 [Murray, A.] Dtsch. ent. Ztschr. 22 229.
- Marseul, S. A. de 1883 Les Entomologistes et leurs Écrits (Entomogists and their writings) L'Abeille (4) 21(=3) 61-120 106-107.,
- Musgrave, A. 1932 Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775-1930. Sydney 233.
- Westwood, J. O. 1877 [Murray, A.] Trans. Ent. Soc. London , London [1877] XXXIX.
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