Murray, Mitchell Durno (Durno) (1925 - 2009)

Summary

Durno Murray was a veterinary scientist who worked for the McMaster Laboratory, CSIRO Division of Animal Health, between 1951 and 1986, including being Officer-in-Charge 1974 - 1977. He led the group studying ectoparasites of livestock (1960 - 1977): other major research was on the epidemiology of arbovirus diseases (1977 - 1986). His other interests include Antarctic biology and ornithology, in particular seabirds. Murray was the first regional organiser for New South Wales for the Australian Bird Banding Scheme and was instrumental in setting up the N.S.W. Albatross Study Group (now SOSSA). As President of the Australian Bird Study Association he was largely responsible for the Seabird Island series, which has documented and published reports on over 200 seabird breeding islands off the Australian coast. Murray has published widely on ornithology and was co-author of the avian ectoparasite section of the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds.

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Chronology

1946

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) (veterinary science), Royal Veterinary College, London

1947 - 1949

Career position - Veterinary Surgeon, Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company, New Zealand

1949 - 1951

Career position - Research Scientist, Wallaceville Animal Research Station, Department of Agriculture, New Zealand

1951 - 1986

Career position - Research Scientist, F. D. McMaster Animal Health Laboratory

1954 - 1956

Career position - Regional Organiser for New South Wales, Australian Bird Banding Scheme

1970

Career position - Chairman, Biology and Medical Subcommittee, Australian National Committee for Antarctic Research, Australian Academy of Science

1973 - 1974

Career position - President, Australian Bird Study Association

1974 - 1977

Career position - Officer-in-Charge, F. D. McMaster Animal Health Laboratory

1986

Life event - Retired

1988 - 1991

Career position - President, Australian Bird Study Association

1990 - 1994

Career position - Editor, Corella

1993 - 2009

Award - Life Member, Australian Bird Study Association

1996

Award - J. N. Hobbs Memorial Medal, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

2009

Award - DSc honoris causa, University of Sydney

Related entries

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Leishman, Alan; and Smith, Geoffrey, 'Mitchell Durno Murray (1925 - 2009)', Corella, 33 (2) (2002), 45-6. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16018536. Details
• 'Murray, M D (1925-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-566862. Details

See also

• Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details