McMURTRIE, Henry, educator, born in Philadelphia in 1793; died there, 26 May, 1865. He was graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1814, and became professor of anatomy and physiology in the Central high-school of Philadelphia. He was the author of valuable text-books, including a "Lexicon Scientarium : a Dictionary of Terms used in the Various Branches of Anatomy, Astronomy, Botany, Geology, Geometry, Hygiene, Mineralogy, Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Zoology, etc." (Philadelphia, 1847). He also published a translation of Cuvier's "Animal Kingdom" (1832). ...