Robert Ball (naturalist)

Robert Ball (1802-1857) was an Irish naturalist. The Ball family lived in Youghal, County Cork. Robert had a brother — Bent and two sisters Anne, a well-known phytologist and Mary an entomologist . The family was Protestant and "involved in trade."After a career in the civil service he became Director of the Dublin University Museum.He was a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and President of the Geological Society of Ireland

Robert Ball was the father of Robert Stawell Ball a physicist and astronomer and Valentine Ball a geologist and naturalist.

Works

On the museum.
*(1846) First Report on the Progress of the Dublin University Museum, January 1846. Dublin.
*(1847) Second Report on the Progress of the Dublin University Museum, June 1847. Dublin.
*(1848) The Dublin University Museum, December, 1848. Dublin.
*(1853) Evidence. In Dublin University Commission, Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state, discipline, studies and revenues of the University of Dublin and Trinity College. Dublin. 153-169.

Scientific

*1841. On a species of Loligo, found on the shore of Dublin Bay. "Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy", 1 (19). 362-364.
*1842 Notes of the acetabuliferous Cephalopoda of Ireland, including two species of Rossiae. "Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy" 2: 192-194.

External links

* [http://www.nahste.ac.uk/isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0336.html NAHSTE]
* [http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-1429.html Darwin Project]