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number until his death. Contributions from bis pen will be found 

 in this Journal for 1871 and 1873. Among his papers may be 

 mentioned : — " Experiments on the Movement of Water in Plants," 

 published in vol. xxv. of the ' Transactions of the Eoyal Irish 

 Academy ' (1874-5) ; " On tbe Development of the Flowers of 

 Welivitschia" (Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. (1873) ). 



He was the author of two popular botanical text-books, ' Out- 

 lines of the Morphology and Physiology,' and ' Outlines of the 

 Classification of Plants,' published in 1878 ; and also wrote the 

 scientific ' Guide-book to the Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin.' 

 During the last seven years of bis life he was engaged on a large 

 text -book of botany, and actively occupied with researches on 

 subjects connected with this work. 



Dr. McNab had a wide acquaintance with modern botanical 

 literature, both English and foreign, and was an expert alike in the 

 systematic, structural, and physiological aspects of botany. He, in 

 1871, was the first to introduce into England the methods of 

 teaching botany practised abroad. His style as a lecturer was 

 precise, lucid, and simple, and his laboratory instruction was of the 

 higbest order. 



His zeal for his subject was so great that he voluntarily trebled 

 his work at the Royal College of Science, in order that students 

 who had entered for the examinations of the Royal University of 

 Ireland might receive the best possible instruction. In order to 

 devote more energy to this work, he resigned other engagements, 

 one of which was the Chair of Botany in the Carmichael School of 

 Medicine. 



BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH 

 BOTANISTS. 



By James Britten, F.L.S., and G. S. Boulger, F.L.S. 

 (Continued from p. 22.) 



Morton, Rev. John. B.A., Camb., 1691. M.A., 1695. F.R.S., 

 1703. Rector of Oxendon Magna, Northants, 1706. Corre- 

 spondent of Ray, Sloane, Llhwyd, and Woodward. ' Nat. Hist, 

 of Northamptonshire,' 1712 (Plants, pp. 360-407). Copy, with 

 his MS. notes, in Bibl. Mus. Brit., press-mark, 443, i, 10. 

 Contrib. to R. Syn. Pult. i. 354 ; Rich. Corr. 85 ; Nich. Illustr. 

 i. 326. 



Moseley, Harriet (fl. 1836-1867). Of Malvern. 1922 Drawings 

 of British Plants (1836-1867) in Dept. of Botany, Brit. Mus. 

 Contrib. to Lees' ' Botany of Malvern,' and to Leighton's 

 ' Flora of Shropshire.' Lees, ' Bot. of Worcester,' xc. 



Mosely, Walter Michael (fl. 1792). Of Glashampton, Wor- 

 cestersh. Sent plants to Eng. Bot. (494, 1005). 



Motley, James (fl. 1847-1855). Murdered in Borneo by Moham- 

 medan settlers. Of Aberafon, Glamorganshire, and afterwards 



