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52 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS.
number until his death. Contributions from his 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 Royal Irish
Academy ' (1874-5) ; " On the Development of the Flowers of
Wehvitschia" (Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. (1873)).
He was the author of two popular botanical text-books, ' Outlines
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 his 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
highest order.
His zeal for his subject was so great that he voluntarily trebled
liis 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. Correspondent
of Ray, Sloane, Llhwyd, and Woodward. * Nat. Hist,
of Northamptoasliire,' 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, Worcestersh.
Sent plants to Eng. Bot. (494, 1005).
Motley, James (fl. 1847-1855). Murdered in Borneo by Mohammedan
settlers. Of Aberafon, Glamorganshire, and afterwards