Ralph Tate

There he studied botany, publishing his Flora Belfastiensis in 1863, while also investigating the Cretaceous and Triassic rocks of Antrim, the results of which he presented to the Geological Society of London.

[1] In 1866 he wrote three botanical papers, and also published A Plain and Easy Account of the Land and Freshwater Mollusks of Great Britain.

In 1875 Tate was appointed Elder Professor of natural science at the University of Adelaide in South Australia,[1] teaching botany, zoology and geology.

In 1883 he became a fellow of the Linnean Society, and in 1888 he was a founding member of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as becoming president of the AAAS's biological section.

Tate paid a visit to England at the end of 1896 partly for the good of his health, but early in 1901 it began to fail again and he died on 20 September 1901.