Editing Roderick Murchison (section)

==Legacy==
The crater [[Murchison (crater)|Murchison]] on the [[Moon]] and at least fifteen geographical locations on Earth are named after him.

These include: the Murchison Range, part of the [[Stauning Alps]], and the [[Murchison Sound]] in [[Greenland]];<ref name="cat"/> [[Mount Murchison (Alberta)|Mount Murchison]] in [[Banff National Park]], Canada; Mount Murchison in the [[Mountaineer Range]], Antarctica; Mount Murchison, just west of [[Squamish, British Columbia]], Canada; tiny Murchison Island in [[Haida Gwaii]] <!--little more than a ref or rock--> in the same province; the [[Murchison Falls]] in Uganda; the [[Murchison River (Western Australia)|Murchison River]] in Western Australia.<ref name="BCGNIS"/> Murchison has two other rivers named after him in Western Australia: the Roderick River and the [[Impey River]], both tributaries of the Murchison. The town of [[Murchison, New Zealand|Murchison]] in the [[Tasman District]] of New Zealand's South Island was also named after him. Other New Zealand places named after him include [[Mount Murchison (Canterbury)|Mount Murchison]] in [[Arthur's Pass National Park]], [[Murchison Glacier]] in [[Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park]], and the [[Murchison Mountains]] in [[Fiordland National Park]].{{sfn|Reed|2010|pp=263–264}}

Murchison Road is one of the streets in east London, and there is a Murchison Avenue in Old Bexley, southeast London. Scarborough in North Yorkshire has a Murchison Street.
[[File:Dudley View Charlotte Murchison Silurian System p.480.jpg|thumb|Lithographic Sketch, Dudley from Wren's Nest by Charlotte Murchison in The Silurian System, 1839, p.480]]
Murchison's View is named after him. The viewpoint within the Wren's Nest area of [[Dudley]] gives a panoramic view over much of Birmingham and the Black Country. Murchinson's visits to the limestone hills of Dudley helped him to develop his understanding of the Silurian System. When he returned to the area in 1849 he was greeted by 15,000 locals who declared him the King of Siluria.

===Memorials===
[[File:Memorial tablet of Roderick Murchison at the School 9 in Perm.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Memorial stone and tablet in [[Perm, Russia]]]]
A memorial tablet was installed on 3 November 2005 in front of School #9 in [[Perm, Russia|Perm]] in Russia.<ref name="rfn.ru"/> It consists of a stone base, irregular in form, about two metres long, and bearing a dark stone plate with the following inscription (in Russian):
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To Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, explorer of [[Perm Krai]],
who gave to the last period of the Paleozoic era the name of Permian.
}}
The decision to perpetuate the explorer's name was accepted by the school administration and pupils in connection with a discussion to establish in Perm a pillar or an arch devoted to Roderick Murchison.

In 2009, the Ural-Scottish Society erected a memorial to Murchison on the banks of the [[Chusovaya River]].<ref name="Telegraph2009"/> There is a commemorative [[blue plaque]] on his residence at 21 Galgate in [[Barnard Castle]] (County Durham).

A fictionalised version of Murchison appears in the 2020 film [[Ammonite (film)|Ammonite]]. He is played by [[James McArdle]].