James Murray (biologist), the Glossary
Dr James Murray FRSE (21 July 1865, Glasgow – February 1914) was a biologist and explorer.[1]
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31 relations: Angus Macfadyen, Bathymetry, Bdelloidea, Clare Island Survey, Ernest Shackleton, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, George Chrystal, George Marston (artist), Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art, Herald Island (Arctic), Inuit, James Burgess (archaeologist), John Murray (oceanographer), La Paz, Last voyage of the Karluk, Loch, National Library of Scotland, Nimrod Expedition, Percy Fawcett, Robert Bartlett (explorer), Rotifer, Royal Geographical Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Tambopata District, Tardigrade, The Lost City of Z (film), Thomas Nicol Johnston, Tropics, University of Glasgow, Wrangel Island.
- British polar explorers
Angus Macfadyen
Angus Macfadyen (born 21 September 1963) is a Scottish actor.
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Bathymetry
Bathymetry is the study of underwater depth of ocean floors (seabed topography), lake floors, or river floors.
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Bdelloidea
Bdelloidea (Greek βδέλλα, bdella, "leech") is a class of rotifers found in freshwater habitats all over the world.
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Clare Island Survey
The Clare Island Survey was a multidisciplinary (zoological, botanical, archaeological, and geological) survey of Clare Island, off the west coast of Ireland.
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Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. James Murray (biologist) and Ernest Shackleton are 20th-century explorers and British polar explorers.
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Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject".
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George Chrystal
George Chrystal FRSE FRS (8 March 1851 – 3 November 1911) was a Scottish mathematician.
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George Marston (artist)
George Edward Marston (19 March 1882 – 22 November 1940) was an English artist who twice accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton on expeditions to Antarctic, first from 1907 to 1909 on the Nimrod expedition, and then later from 1914 to 1917 on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which ended with the crew being marooned on Elephant Island.
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Glasgow
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.
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Glasgow School of Art
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; Sgoil-ealain Ghlaschu) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and design.
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Herald Island (Arctic)
Herald Island (Остров Геральд, Ostrov Gerald) is a small, isolated Russian island in the Chukchi Sea, east of Waring Point, Wrangel Island.
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Inuit
Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
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James Burgess (archaeologist)
James Burgess CIE FRSE FRGS MRAS LLD (14 August 1832Hayavadana Rao, C. (Ed.) (1915) Madras: Pillar & Co., pp. 71-72. At Wikisource. – 3 October 1916), was the founder of The Indian Antiquary in 1872Temple, Richard Carnac.
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John Murray (oceanographer)
Sir John Murray (3 March 1841 – 16 March 1914) was a pioneering Canadian-born British oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist. James Murray (biologist) and John Murray (oceanographer) are Scottish explorers.
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La Paz
La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz, is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
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Last voyage of the Karluk
The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–16, ended with the loss of the ship in the Arctic seas, and the subsequent deaths of nearly half her complement of 25.
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Loch
Loch is a word meaning "lake" or "sea inlet" in Scottish and Irish Gaelic, subsequently borrowed into English.
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National Library of Scotland
The National Library of Scotland (NLS; Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba; Naitional Leebrar o Scotland) is one of the country's National Collections.
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Nimrod Expedition
The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second time to the Continent.
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Percy Fawcett
Percy Harrison Fawcett (18 August 1867 disappeared 29 May 1925) was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America. James Murray (biologist) and Percy Fawcett are 20th-century explorers.
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Robert Bartlett (explorer)
Robert Abram Bartlett (August 15, 1875 – April 28, 1946) was a Newfoundland-born American Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. James Murray (biologist) and Robert Bartlett (explorer) are 20th-century explorers and Shipwreck survivors.
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Rotifer
The rotifers (from the Latin rota, "wheel", and -fer, "bearing"), commonly called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, make up a phylum (Rotifera) of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.
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Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom.
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Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters.
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Tambopata District
Tambopata District is one of four districts of the Tambopata Province in the Madre de Dios Region in Peru.
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Tardigrade
Tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals.
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The Lost City of Z (film)
The Lost City of Z is a 2016 American epic biographical adventure drama film written and directed by James Gray, based on the 2009 book of the same name by David Grann.
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Thomas Nicol Johnston
Thomas Nicol Johnston FRSE (1870–1923) was a Scottish physician and noted amateur zoologist.
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Tropics
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.
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University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Wrangel Island
Wrangel Island (Ostrov Vrangelya,; translit, IPA:, "island of polar bears") is an island of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
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See also
British polar explorers
- Alex Hibbert
- Andrew Croft
- Arthur Harry Blissett
- Augustine Courtauld
- Bedford Pim
- Dwayne Fields
- Edmund Hoar
- Edward Belcher
- Edward Nicholas Kendall
- Edward W. Bingham
- Eric Marshall
- Ernest Shackleton
- Frederick William Beechey
- Geoff Somers
- George Back
- George Nares
- Graham Gore
- Henry Cookson
- Henry Kellett
- Henry Le Vesconte
- James Murray (biologist)
- James Walter Fairholme
- Jim McNeill
- John Franklin
- Luke Foxe
- Mark Wood (explorer)
- Paul Walker (Arctic explorer)
- Pen Hadow
- Percy Lemon
- Pom Oliver
- Preet Chandi
- Richard Collinson
- Richard Pike (mariner)
- Rob Gauntlett
- Robert McClure
- Robert McCormick (explorer)
- Sir Martin Lindsay, 1st Baronet
- Steven Wormald
- Tarka L'Herpiniere
- Thomas Button
- Thomas Clissold
- Thomas Vere Hodgson
- Vivian Fuchs
- William Baffin
- William Penny