James Murray (biologist)

He was born at 50 Charlotte Street in Glasgow, the son of William Murray, a grocer, and his wife, Janet McMurray.

His proposers were Sir John Murray, George Chrystal, James Burgess and Thomas Nicol Johnston.

Murray, unused to the rigours of the tropics, fared poorly, becoming severely ill with fever and infected wounds.

Murray left the jungle with a local settler and then briefly dropped out of sight while he recovered in a house in Tambopata.

The only subsequent hint of their fate was a sailor's scarf belonging to one of them (seaman Stanley Morris), later found buried in an ice floe.