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### Author
McCalla \[M'Calla\], William (1814-1849), Irish schoolmaster and algologist at Roundstone, Connemara.
**Abbreviated name**: *W. McCalla* \[standard form in IPNI: *McCalla*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Material at [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection TCD|TCD]]; types of algae at [[Collection DBN|DBN]] (Koster).
*Exsiccatae*: *Algae hibernicae*, vol. 1, nos. 1-50, vol. 2, nos. 1-50, Dublin 1848, sets at [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection TCD|TCD]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 418; BB p. 197; Clokie p. 204; Desmond p. 403; IH 2:477.
- Babington, C. C, Mem. journ. bot. corr. xxiv, 45, 46, 55, 274. 1897.
- Balfour, J. H., Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 8: 155. 1902 (d. of cholera).
- Dickinson, C. I., Phycol. Bull. 1: 13. 1952.
- Farran, C., Phytologist 2: 742-746. 1847 ("panegyric on Mr. M'Alla...").
- Harvey, W. H., Phycologia britannica 1: 84, 293. 1846.
- Hedge, I. C. & J. M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 105. 1970.
- Hooker, W. J., Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 158. 1836.
- Koster, J. T., Taxon 18: 555. 1969.
- Lett, H. W., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 32(13,7): 74. 1915.
- Praeger, R. L., Some Irish natural. 122. 1949.
- Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 87. 1969.