Murie, James (1832-1925)

Commonplace book with numerous entries by other hands, 1850-1920. Contains some medical and household receipts, but most entries are on moral and literary subjects, extracts, quotations etc. File of loose miscellaneous holograph items: The Infusoria, 1882; 2 drafts of a medical certificate for a worker at Messrs. Kynoch of Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, 1916; diary fragment, 1916; 2 letters to Murie from William Cole, Secretary of the Essex Field Club, on proposed lectures on natural history, 1907.

c.1850-1920

1 volume and 1 file Manuscript volume and loose papers

Presented by J. Murie, December 1926. Some material (acc.69903) was only accessioned formally in 1937, having been part of the initial presentation.

James Murie obtained his M.D. at Glasgow University in 1857; later he was Medical Officer in the Expedition to support Speke and Grant in 1862 and visited the source of the Nile at Lake Victoria, Nyanza. He was later lecturer in anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital. He retired to Leigh-on-Sea, where he became interested in Fisheries.

At Wellcome Collection: see MS.1721/9 for a biography of Murie and MS.4314 for a letter written to him.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).