John Yule Mackay (1860–1930) was a Scottish anatomist and Academic who served as the second Principal of University College Dundee.
[1] In 1888 a report he wrote on 'The development of the branchial arches in birds’ was published in Philosophical Transactions.
[5] In 1896 along with Cleland, his former superior at Glasgow, he produced the works Textbook of Human Anatomy and Dictionary of Dissection.
[6] In October 1924 Mackay delivered a historic public lecture on 'Primitive Man' at University College.
His funeral took place in Dundee’s St Enoch’s Church, where he had been an elder, and he was buried in Barnhill Cemetery.