William Macnae

In this report is the only British record of Chydorus gibbus (Lilljeborg), belonging to the sub-order Anomopoda.

[3] In 1951 Macnae was appointed Lecturer in Zoology at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa under direction of Joseph Omer-Cooper and later Denis William (Jakes) Ewer.

[1] Under Omer-Cooper most research in the department of Zoology had been of an entomological nature, however Macnae was able to publish important descriptions of some South African opisthobranch gastropods.

[1] The first comprehensive assessment of mangrove swamps in South Africa was conducted by Macnae in 1963.

The membership register from 1963 has the following entry: Macnae married Marion Meason Walgate, who was lecturer in botany at the University of Cape Town and later an assistant at the Charles Moss Herbarium of the University of the Witwatersrand where William Macnae was a professor.