Lambert, S.J.

Short biography of Dr. James Murie (1832-1925), Leigh-on-Sea. The initials of Lambert are doubtfully transcribed as 'S.J.'

1927

2 ll. folio. 34 x 21 cm.

Presented 1927.

James Murie obtained his M.D. at Glasgow in 1857 and served in the expedition to relieve Speke and Grant in Central Africa in 1861. He afterwards practised in London, where he was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and for ten years Librarian to the Linnaean Society. He later returned to Leigh-on-Sea where he took up the study of fisheries.

At Wellcome Collection: see MSS.3654-3655 for material by Murie.

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).