James A. Murray (zoologist)

James Alexander Murray (18 September 1841 – after 1893) was a British zoologist, taxidermist, and museum curator in Karachi.

He published several books including one on the edible birds of India and founded the Victoria Natural History Institute at Bombay but went bankrupt, was imprisoned, and died in obscurity.

He then moved to Bombay in 1887 to establish a private natural history concern hoping to prepare and stuff specimens for sale.

[3] In April 1893, he was charged with cheating two Indians, Narain Abba Subia and C. Ruggonath Chetty of Rs 1500 each and sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment by Justice L.H.

Witnesses in the case included H.M. Phipson who noted that he had given personal loans to Murray and had had his name removed from the list of subscribers of the Bombay Natural History Society for failure to pay subscription fees.