Alexander Carte
1805–81
Irish natural historian and museum director. BA, Trinity College, Dublin, 1830; MB 1840; MD 1860. Curator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1846. Director of the natural history museum of the Royal Dublin Society (later incorporated into the Dublin Museum of Science and Art), 1851–81.
Source
Dictionary of Irish biography
Bibliography
Dictionary of Irish biography: A dictionary of Irish biography. 2d edition. [Compiled by] Henry Boylan. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. 1988.
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