Robert Ball
1802–57
Naturalist and civil servant in Dublin. President of the Geological Society of Ireland and the Dublin University Zoological Association. Director of the museum in Trinity College, Dublin, 1844. Secretary of the Queen’s University, Belfast, 1851.
Source
R. Desmond 1977, DNB.
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1977. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists, including plant collectors and botanical artists. 3d ed. London: Taylor and Francis.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.