James Townsend Mackay

Mackay, James Townsend, was a distinguished Scotch botanist, who resided most of his life in Ireland. He was Curator of the College Botanic Gardens, Dublin, which he laid out in 1808 and he made a valuable contribution to the study of Irish botany in his Flora Hibernica (Dublin, 1836). Mr. Mackay died, probably in Dublin, 25th July 1862.

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233. Manuscript and Special Information, and Current Periodicals.

332. University of Dublin; History, with Biographical Notices. William B. S. Taylor. London, 1845.