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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
—Etymotonia, containing Principles of Classical Accentuation,
intended as a Guide to the right Pronunciation of Greek and Latin
words and of all Scientific Terms, &c., &c. (London, 140 pp.,
fcp. 8°, 1836). The work, though now completely forgotten,
I believe, appears to be extremely well done and authoritative.
It shows its author to have been a very accomplished Latin and
Greek scholar.
In 1836, on the formation of the Botanical Society of London,
MacIntyre became an Original Member and, on 29th November,
he was elected a Member of Council (see its Proceedings, i., pp. 16
and 101 : 1839). On this occasion, he was described as "LL.D.,
F.L.S., VP.M.S.L." By what academic body, his degree of
Doctor of Laws had been granted to him, I have failed to ascer-
tain ; but it was neither the University of Cambridge nor that
of Edinburgh. I had supposed that the Society, indicated by
the letters "M.S.L." of which he was Vice-President, was the
Microscopical Society of London, founded in 1839 ; and now
the Royal Microscopical Society ; but our member, Mr. D. J.
Scourfield, who is one of its Hon. Secretaries, and has been good
enough to make enquiries, informs me that MacIntyre's name
does not appear on its roll of Fellows. Nor does it appear to
have been the Medical Society of London (founded 1773) ; for
Mr. George Bethall, the Registrar of that Society, has kindly
searched its list of members without finding MacIntyre's name
thereon.
On the 1st December in the same year, he read before the
Botanical Society "A Notice of Plants growing spontaneously
on and about Warley Common, in Essex" (printed in Proceed-
ings, i., pp. 16-21). On the 15th, he "communicated some
further remarks" on the same subject, but these were not printed
separately. This paper is full of botanical interest for us to-day,
as showing the vast changes which have taken place in both
the physical condition and the flora of Warley Common since
MacIntyre wrote just eighty-four years ago. Further, his
matter proves him to have been as good a botanist as he appears
to have been a mathematician and a classical scholar. He
enumerates 701 species of plants, belonging to 340 genera, as
having been found by him growing on or around the Common
in question. Among other plants now scarce or completely
extirpated he mentions Fritillaria meleagris. The chief point