He devoted himself with great diligence to the study of Natural History, Science, and Art of the Country, notwithstanding the pressure of a large medical practice on his time and energies. The fruits of this study were from time to time sent home, in the shape of gifts to the Museums of this country, among others to this Museum, which has been signally enriched by Dr. MURRAY'S contributions. His chief object in seeking to return to China is to prosecute, on a wider and more systematic scale, the investigation of Chinese Science and Art, with a view to make these better known to Europeans, and to render the great resources of the country and the skill of its inhabitants available to Great Britain.
He is an accomplished, intelligent physician, well skilled in the Sciences, of kindly disposition, and irreproachable character. Were he appointed to the office he seeks, he would secure for the Museums of this Country examples of Chinese products, natural and artificial, of the greatest value; and it seems most desirable that the Medical Officer of a Colony so important as Hong Kong, should, like the lamented Dr. Harland, be not only a good surgeon, but qualified to turn his opportunities of intercourse with the Chinese to the greatest account, as a medium of communication between them and his own countrymen at home.
GEORGE WILSON, M.D., Regius Professor of Technology, University Edinburgh; Director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland.
From DOUGLAS MACLAGAN, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S.E., F.R.S.E, Lecturer on Materia Medica, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, &c. &c.
MY DEAR DR. MURRAY,
28, NEREOT ROW, EDINBURGH,
18th November, 1858.
I cannot imagine that any one can have better claims than yourself for the appointment of Colonial Surgeon at Hong Kong. You had, in common with many others, the advantage of a very full professional education here, and you turned to the best account your opportunities of instruction. Since that time you have had what very few others have acquired—a long practical acquaintance with disease in China itself. Since your return home you have been most assiduously adding to your store of knowledge, by constant study at our great medical school.
On these grounds I express my very decided opinion of your high qualifications for this office, adding only my expressions of warm regret that you should be so far removed from all of us here who esteem you so highly, both professionally and personally, as I do.
Believe me,
Yours very truly,
DOUGLAS MACLAGAN.
DR. J. IVOR MURRAY.
From WM. T. GAIRDNER, ESQ., M.D., F.R.C.P.E., Lecturer on the Practice of Physic, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, and Physician to the Royal Infirmary, &c. &c.
52, NORTHUMBERLAND STREET, EDINBURGH,
November 18th, 1858.
Dr. JOHN IVOR MURRAY having stated to me that he is a Candidate for the office of Colonial Surgeon at Hong Kong, I have great pleasure in bearing testimony in his favor.
DR. MURRAY was known to me fifteen or sixteen years ago, as one of the ablest, steadiest, and most persistently industrious of the medical students of that time. We were very intimately acquainted as fellow-students of the same standing, and I have since become informed of almost everything important in his subsequent career.
That career has been singularly honorable. DR. MURRAY went to the East almost without an introduction and without a friend, except those he left at home. Thrown almost by accident among the Malays of Java, he managed to make himself useful, and by a series of occasions carefully improved, he made his way to China, and settled at Shanghai, where he had for several years about the largest practice in the settlement. He built a hospital there, and coming home at the time of the Crimean war, made application for employment in the army, and was before Sebastopol during the winter of 1855; since the close of the war he has returned to his friends in Edinburgh, and they have had no difficulty in recognising the same warm heart and capacity for practical usefulness with which he left them.
DR. MURRAY is in every respect well fitted for the office of Colonial Surgeon; he is thoroughly well educated, able to get through a great deal of work in a business-like manner, kind to subordinates, affable to his equals, and besides these mental qualifications, has the great blessing of an excellent constitution, well tried in a climate similar to that of Hong Kong.
W. T. GAIRDNER, Physician Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, &c.
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he devoted himself with great diligence to the study of Natural History, Science, and Art of the Country, notwithstanding the pressure of a large medical practice on his time and energies. The fruits of this study were from time to time sent home, in the shape of gifts to the Museums of this country, among others to this Museum, which has been signally enriched by Da. MURRAY'S contributions. His chief object in seeking to return to China is to prosecute, on a wider and more systematic scale, the investigation of Chinese Science and Art, with a view to make these better known to Europeans, and to render the great resources of the country and the skill of its inhabitants available to Great Britain.
He is an accomplished, intelligent physician, well skilled in the Sciences, of kindly disposition, and irreproachable character. Were he appointed to the office he seeks, he would secure for the Museums of this Country examples of Chinese products, natural and artificial, of the greatest value; and it seems most desirable that the Medical Officer of a Colony so important as Hong Kong, should, like the lamented Dr. Harland, be not only a good surgeon, but ified to turn his opportunities of intercourse with the Chinese to the greatest account, as a medium of communication between them and his own countrymen at home,
GEORGE WILSON, M.D., Regius Professor of Technology, University Edinburgh; Director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland.
From DOUGLAS MACLAGAN, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S.E., F.R.S.E, Lecturer on Materia Medica, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, &c. &c.
MY DEAR DR. MURRAY,
28, NEREOT ROW, EDINBURGH,
18th November, 1858.
I cannot imagine that any one can have better claims than yourself for the appointment of Colonial Surgeon at Hong Kong. You had, in common with many others, the advantage of a very full professional education here, and you turned to the best account your opportunities of instruction. Since that time you have had what very few others have acquired-a long practical acquaintance with disease in China itself. Since your return home you have been most assiduously adding to your store of knowledge, by constant study at our great medical school.
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these grounds I express my very decided opinion of your high qualifications for this office, adding only my expressions of warm regret that you should be so far removed from all of us here who esteem you so highly, both professionally aul personally, as I do.
DR. J. IVOR MURRAY.
Believe me,
Yours very truly,
DOUGLAS MACLAGAN.
From WM. T. GAIEDNER, ESQ., M.D., F.R.C.P.E., Lecturer on the Practice of Physic, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, and Physician to the Royal Infirmary, &c. &c.
52, NORTHUMBERLAND STREET, EDINBURGH,
November 18th, 1858.
Dr. JOHN IVOR MURRAY having stated to me that he is a Candidate for the office
of Colonial Surgeon at Hong Kong, I have great pleasure in bearing testimony in his favor.
DR. MURRAY was known to me fifteen or sixteen years ago, as one of the ablest, steadiest, and most persistently industrious of the medical students of that time. We were very intimately acquainted as fellow-students of the same standing, and I have since become informed of almost everything important in his subsequent carcer.
That career has been singularly honorable. DR. MURRAY went to the East almost without an introduction and without a friend, except those he left at home. Thrown almost by accident among
the Malays of Java, he managed to make himself useful, and by a series of occasions carefully improved, he made his way to China, and settled at Shanghai, where he had for several years about the largest practice in the settlement. He built an hospital there, and coming home at the time of the Crimean war, made application for employment in the army, and was before Sebastopol during the winter of 1855: since the close of the war he has returned to his friends in Edinburgh, and they have had no difficulty in recognising the same warm heart and capacity for practical usefulness with which he left them.
DR. MURRAY is in every respect well fitted for the office of Colonial Surgeon; he is thoroughly well educated, able to get through a great deal of work in a business-like manner, kind to subordinates, affable to his equals, and besides these mental qualifications, has the great blessing of au excellent constitution, well tried in a climate similar to that of Hong Kong.
W. T. GAIRDNER, Physician Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, &c.
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