Abstract
THE German Emperor, as King of Prussia, has conferred upon Dr. John Murray, Director of the Scottish Marine Station, and formerly of the Challenger expedition, the rare distinction of knighthood in the Order Pour le Mérite founded by Frederick the Great. This is generally allowed to be the highest honour which a man of science can receive, and is limited to thirty German and twenty-five foreign knights. Lord Kelvin, Lord Lister, and Sir G. G. Stokes are the only other British men of science now alive who have received the Order. Dr. Murray has also been elected a Foreign Member of the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Notes. Nature 57, 348–352 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057348b0
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