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as his u Lifmedicus ” and followed him into Turkey,,
staying away for five years. The rest of his life was of a
more peaceful kind. He discovered on his home journey
another mineral-spring at Liinekloster near Liineburg, and
remained there as M Brunnenarzt ” till the end of his life,
convinced of the miraculous effects of the waters, an
account of which he published in 1715.1 He died at
Hamburg in 1718.
We are on safer genealogical grounds when we come
to two other famous members of the Murray family, both
medical men, Johann Andreas and Adolf. The former
received his early schooling in the German school of
Stockholm and from his father. In 1756 he went to
Upsala to begin his study of medicine, profiting much by
the instruction of Linné. So great was his zeal that he
used even the holidays to perfect himself in his calling by
visiting the hospitals and apothecaries’ shops. After a
stay of about three years at Göttingen he took his medical
degree in 1763, and commenced lectures on botany. In
1769 he was made a professor, and Director of the
Botanical Gardens. His fame now spread rapidly,
especially after he had come in contact with famous men
and societies abroad. With Linné he always remained on
terms of friendship. The master did him the honour of
calling an insect Cassida Murrayi and a plant of East
India Murraya exotica probably with a slight allusion to
his pupil’s connection with foreign lands. Murray,
however, was not a blind follower of the great botanist; he
made several innovations in his system, and did not restrict
himself to botany. His essays on pathological and
scientific subjects belong to the best that have been
published in the celebrated Gottinger wissenschaftliche
1 See Sackleo, Sveriges Läkare Historia (History of Swedish.
Physicians).
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