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* Plants collected in the line of the Rideau Canal, Canada West,' 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. xx. 11 (1847). E. S. C. iv. 165. 



Macleay, Alexander (1767-1848): b. Eoss-shire, 24th June, 

 1767; d. Sydney, N. S. W., 18th July, 1848. F.L.S., 1794; 

 Sec, 1798-1825. F.E.S., 1809. Colonial Sec, N. S.W., 

 1825-1836. Entomologist. ** A practical botanist," E. Brown. 

 Proc Linn. Soc ii. 45. Oil portr. by Lawrence at Linn. Soc 

 Madeaija Br. Narcissus Madeaii Lindl. 



Macleay, William Sharp (d. 1864-5). M.A. F.L.S., 1821. 

 Zoologist. ' Laws regulating Insects and Fungi,' Linn. Trans, 

 xiv. 46 (1822). R. S. C. iv. 168. 



McNab, Catherine (1812-1857) : b. Edinburgh, 1812 ; d. Dailly, 

 Ayrshire, 1857. Daughter of Wm. McNab. * Botany of the 

 Bible,' Edinburgh, 1850-51. Prepared sheets of ' Object Lessons 

 in Botany.' 



McNab, Gilbert (1815-1859) : b. Edinburgh, 26th Nov. 1815 ; 

 d. St. Ann's, Jamaica, 21st Jan. 1859. Son of Wm. McNab. 

 M.D., Edinb., 1836. Orig. Memb. Bot. Soc. Edinb., 1836. 

 Practised and collected in Jamaica. Assisted Macfadyen in his 

 ' Flora of Jamaica.' Plants at Kew and Edinburgh. Trans. 

 Bot. Soc. Edinb. vi. 354. 



McNab, James (1810-1878): b. Richmond, Surrey, 25th April, 

 1810; d. Edinburgh, 19th Nov. 1878; bur. Warriston Cemetery, 

 Edinburgh. Son of Wm. McNab. Curator, Bot. Gard. Edin- 

 burgh, 1849-1878. Orig. Memb. Bot. Soc. Edinb. ; President, 

 1872. Contributed to Bot. Mag., Sweet's Brit. Flower Garden, 

 Edinb. Philosoph. Journ., Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb., Garden, &c. 

 E. S. C. iv. 170; viii. 300; Journ. Bot. xvi. 382 ; Trans. Bot. 

 Soc. Edinb. xiii. 381; Gard. Chron. 1871, 1033; and, with 

 portr., 1878 ; ii. 661. Life, with portr., in ' Garden,' xii. (1877). 



McNab, Robert (fl. 1842). Of the Bridge of Earn. 'North 

 British Cultivator : a treatise on Gardening, Agriculture, and 

 Botany,' 1842. 



McNab, William (1780-1848): b. Dailly, Ayrshire, 1780; d. 

 Edinburgh, 1st Dec. 1848. Gardener at Kew from about 1800. 

 Superintendent, Edinburgh Bot. Gard., 1810-1848. A.L.S., 

 1825. Pritz. 200; E. S. C. iv. 170; Gard. Chron. 1848, 812; 

 Cott. Gard. i. 165; Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 52; Bot. Gazette, i. 53. 

 Portr. at Kew. Macnahia Benth. (1832) = .Va6mLehm. (1831). 



Macrae, James (fl. 1823-1830). Gardener. At Bot. Garden, 

 St. Vincent's, 1823. Collected for Hort. Soc, 1824-1826, in 

 Sandwich, Galapagos, and other islands. Chili, and Brazil. 

 Superintendent, Ceylon Bot. Garden, 1827-1830. Lasegue, 455 ; 

 Trans. Hort. Soc. vi. p. iii. Macnea Lindl. = Viviania. Macraca 

 Hook. f. = LipocJiatd. MacrcBa Wight = Pliyllanthus. 



Macreight, Daniel Chambers (fl. 1820-1868). B.A., Dublin, 

 1820. M.D., Dubhn, 1827 ; Oxon, 1828. F.L.S., 1833. 

 Lecturer on Bot., Middlesex Hospital. Orig. Memb. Bot. Soc. 

 Lond., 1837. 'Manual of Brit. Bofc.,' 1837. Collected in 

 Ireland, Eng. Bot. 2770. Pritz. 200 ; Jacks. 234. Macreiyhtia 

 A. DC. = Maba. 



