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^ENEAS MACINTYRE: A FORGOTTEN ESSEX 
BOTANIST. 
BY MILLER CHRISTY, F.L.S. 
F OR some years past, I have been puzzled as to the identity 
of this man, who “ flourished ” (as the term is) during the 
second quarter of last century. My interest in him arose from 
the fact that 'he was evidently a man of good standing and 
education, possessing considerable attainments as a botanist and 
in other ways, and that he had clearly some connection with Essex. 
Yet I have failed completely, thus far, to learn anything as to 
his origin, personality, occupation, and end. Messrs. Britten 
& Boulger, whose Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish 
Botanists is usually so helpful in such a matter, give none but 
the most meagre information in regard to him. 
The earliest fact connected with him which I have been 
able to ascertain is that, on 19th x\pril 1825, when he was living 
at Stockwell Park, Surrey, he was proposed as a Fellow of the 
Linnean Society, his proposers being Thomas Bell, William 
Kent, R. Taylor, and G. E. Bitcheno. He was duly elected on 
the 1st November following. Thereafter, his name appears 
frequently in the Minute Books, as having received permission 
to borrow books from the Library, and he is known to have 
remained a Fellow for nearly twenty years. During that period 
he changed his place of residence several times, as shown by the 
successive annual Lists of Fellows. Thus, he lived successively 
at Notting Hill (1829-31), Bouverie Street, E.C. (1832), and West 
Ham, Essex (1840). For this information, I am indebted to 
the kindness of Dr. B. Daydon Jackson, the General Secretary 
of the Linnean Society. 
Some seven years later, in 1832, we find him publishing 
a small work containing An Examination of the “ Official Relative 
Lists of Boroughs ” and of the Plan on which it is constructed 
(London, Hatchard & Son, 16 pp., dy. 8°, 1832). The matter 
in it consists of some remarks concerning the rating or taxation 
of Boroughs, which the author had submitted to Lord Liverpool, 
then Prime Minister, but apparently without result. It is a 
small and very abstruse work, full of mathematical formulae. 
Four years later, in 1836, he published a rather larger work 
