About Desmond P. Murray
Lived 1887 – 1967 (aged 79–80). Desmond P. Murray was a South African lepidopterist and entomologist.
Desmond P. Murray (21 August 1887 - 2 March 1967) was a British entomologist and writer.
Murray was born of Irish parents in London. He was educated at Oratory School and was an ordained priest in St. Edmunds College in 1911. He spent seven years in the ministry of St. Francis, London and joined the English Province of the Dominican Order. Murray wrote Species Revalued in 1955. In this work he suggested that natural selection cannot fully account for the mechanism of evolution.
Selected publications A Forgotten Saint (1923) South African Butterflies (1935) Species Revalued (1955) A Saint of the Week (1957) The Life History of Nymphula Stagnata Donovan (1957)
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South African lepidopterist
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Desmond P. Murray was born in 1887.
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Desmond P. Murray died in 1967.
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Desmond P. Murray was a lepidopterist and entomologist.
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Desmond P. Murray was South African.
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