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"GEORGE ROBERT MILNE MURRAY (1858-1911), British botanist, was born at Arbroath Nov. 1858. He was the younger brother of A. S. Murray ( see 19.38), and was educated at Arbroath and at Strassburg University. As keeper of the department of botany at the British Museum his researches were principally devoted to algae and cryptogams, in the pursuit of which he made several voyages, notably in 1901 as scientific director to Capt. R. F. Scott's Antarctic expedition. He died at Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Dec. 16 1911.