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### Author
Mackay, Alexander Howard (1848-1929), Canadian botanist; B.Sc. Univ. Halifax 1880; teacher at the Pictou Academy, Halifax, 1873-1889, principal of Halifax County Academy 1889-1891; head of the department of education of Nova Scotia 1891-1926; LL.D. h. c. Dalhousie Univ. 1892, id. Univ. Antigonish, N. S. 1905.
**Abbreviated name**: *A. Mackay* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Mackay*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection DAL|DAL]] (destroyed?); [[Collection NSPM|NSPM]] (lichens), [[Collection NY|NY]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 426; BL 1: 133, 138, 307; CSP 16: 967-968; De Toni 2:lxxviii; IH 2:483; Kelly p. 136; LS 16201-16202, 36363; NAF 9(6): 442; Stevenson p. 1250; Tucker 1: 449.
- Boivin, B., Provancheria 10: 170. 1980 (coll.).
- Colinvaux, L. H., Taxon 15: 166. 1966 (coll. algae).
- Dörfler, J., Botaniker-Adressbuch 174. 1896 (err. A. K. Mackay).
- Osborn, H., Fragm. entom. hist. 130. 1937.
- Penhallow, D. P., Trans. R. Soc. Can. ser. 2. 3(4): 19, 46. 1897.
- Piers, H., Proc. Nova Scot. Inst. 17: xlvii-liii. 1930 (obit., portr., b. 19 Mai 1848, d. 19 Mai 1929).
### Publications
##### n.5181. Fungi of Nova Scotia
**Title**
*Fungi of Nova Scotia*: a provisional list. – By A. H. Mackay,...
**Abbreviated title**: *Fung. Nova Scotia*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Aug 1904, cover, p. \[122\]-143. *Copy*: DAO. – "Author's separates published August, 1904" on cover of preprint from Proc. Nova Scot. Inst. 11: 122-143. 27 Mar 1905.
*First supplementary list*: 8 May 1908, cover, p. \[119\]-138. *Copy*: DAO. – "Author's separates published 8th May 1908." on cover of preprint from Proc. Nova Scot. Inst. 12(1): 119-138. 1908.