James A. Murray (zoologist)

James A. Murray was a British 19th century zoologist, taxidermist, and museum curator in Karachi.

Title page of The Avifauna of British India and its Dependencies

He was a Member of the Bombay Natural History Society and Anthropological Society of Bombay, a manager at the Victoria Natural History Institute (around 1886-88, Murray also produced a periodical called Indian Annals and Magazine of Natural Science and branches of the Victoria Natural History Institute were begun in Mysore and Bangalore around 1892 and a report of the Bangalore Museum reported that they were hoping for good taxidermy services at a reasonable price from the organization[1] ) and curator at the Kurrachee Municipal Library and Museum.

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Publications
  • Murray, J.A. (1890) The Avifauna of the Island of Ceylon. Bombay: Educational Society Press.
  • Murray, J.A. (1889) The Edible and Game Birds of British India with its Dependencies and Ceylon. London: Trubner.
  • Murray, J.A. (1888) Indian Birds or the Avifauna of British India. Vols. 1-2. London: Trubner & Co.
  • Murray, J.A. (1887) The Avifauna of British India and its dependencies.
  • Murray, J.A. (1887) The Zoology of Beloochistan and Southern Afghanistan.
  • Murray, J.A. (1884) The Vertebrate Zoology of Sind : a systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles inhabiting the province.
  • Murray, J.A. (1881) The Plants and Drugs of Sind : being a systematic account, with descriptions, of the indigenous Flora.
  • Murray, J.A. (1880) A Handbook to the Geology, Botany, and Zoology of Sind.

References
  1. Report on the Mysore Government Museum for 1891-92. 1892.


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