112 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Macleay, William Sharp (d. 1865) : d. Sydney, N. S. W., 25 



Jan., 1865. M.A. Camb., 1818 ; F.L.S., 1821. Zoologist. 



In W. Indies, 1827 ; at Sydney, 1855. ' Laws regulating 



Insects and Fungi,' Linn. Trans, xiv. 46 (1822). E. S. C. 



iv. 168 ; Johnston Corr. 133. 

 McNab, Catherine (1812-57) : b. Edinburgh, 1812 ; d. DaiUy, 



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



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



Lessons in Botany.' 

 McNab, Gilbert (1815-59) : b. Edinburgh, 26 Nov., 1815; d. 



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



M.D. Edin., 1836. In Shetland, 1837. Orig. Memb. Bot. 



Soc. Edin., 1836. Practised and collected, in Jamaica. 



Assisted Macfadyen in his ' Flora of Jamaica.' Plants at 



Kew and Edinburgh. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. vi. 354. 

 McNab, James (1810-78) : b. Eichmond, Surrey, 25 April, 



1810; d. Edinburgh, 19 Nov., 1878; bur. Warriston Ceme- 

 tery, Edin. Son of Wm. McNab. Curator Bot. Gard. 



Edin. 1849-78. Orig. Memb. Bot. Soc. Edin. ; President, 



1872. Went to N. America. Contrib. to Bot. Mag., Sweet's 



Brit. Fl. Garden, Edin. Phil. Joum., Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., 



Garden, &c. E. S. C. iv. 170 ; viii. 300 ; Journ. Bot. xvi. 



382 ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xiii. 381 ; Gard. Chron. 1871, 



1033 ; and, with portr., 1878 ; ii. 661 ; ' Garden,' xii. (1877), 



with portr. 

 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. DaiUy, Ayrshire, 1780 ; d. 



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



1800. Orig. Memb. Bot. Soc. Edin. Superintendent, Edin. 



Bot. Gard., 1810-48. 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. ILacnabia 



Benth. (1832) = Nabea Lehm. (1831). 

 McNab, William Ramsay (1844-89) : b. Edinburgh, 9 Nov., 



1844 ; d. DubHn, 3 Dec, 1889. Son of preceding. M.D. 



Edin., 1866. Prof. Bot. Coll. Sci. Dublin, 1873. F.L.S., 1877. 



Jacks. 576 ; E. S. C. viii. 301 ; Joum. Bot. 1890, 51 ; Gard. 



Chron. 1889, vi. 670; Ann. Bot. iii. 477 (bibliogr.). 

 Macrae, James (fl. 1823-30). Gardener. At Bot. Garden, St. 



Vincent's, 1823. Collected for Hort. Soc, 1824-26, in 



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



Superintendent, Ceylon Bot. Garden, 1827-30. Lasegue, 



455 ; Trans. Hort. Soc. vi. p. iii. Macraa Lindl. = Viviania. 



Macraea Hook. f. = Lipocliceta. Macraa Wight = Phyllan- 



thus. 

 Macreight, Daniel Chambers (fl. 1820-68). B.A. Dublin, 



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



Edin., 1836. Lecturer on Bot., Middlesex Hospital. Orig. 



Memb. Bot. Soc. Lond., 1837. ' Manual of Brit. Bot.,' ly37. 



Collected in Ireland, Eng. Bot. 2770. Botaniaed in 



