MC NAB

William Ramsay (only son of James Mc Nab b. 1810, curator of Edinb. botanical gardens, d. 20 Nov. 1878). b. Edinburgh, Nov. 1844; M.D. Edinb. 1866, began practice 1867; profe or of natural history in royal agricultural college, Cirencester 1870–2; introduced the facts and methods of Julius Von Sachs in teaching botany 1871; profe or of botany in royal college of science, Dublin, March 1872 to death; scientific superintendent of royal botanic gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 1880 to death; Swiney lecturer on fo il botany at British Museum 1888 to death; author of Outlines of morphology and physiology 1877, new ed. 1881; Outlines of cla ification of plants 1877. d. 2 Montrose, Cabra road, Dublin 3 Dec. 1889; a subscription raised for his wife and children. His collection of coleoptera is in the Dublin museum of science and art. Nature , Dec. 1889 pp. 112, 159, Feb. 1890 p. 347.