Robert Ball(naturalist)

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Robert Ball (1802-1857) was an Irish naturalist.

The Ball family lived in Youghal, County Cork. Robert had a brother — Bent and two sisters Anne, a well-known phytologist and Mary an entomologist . The family was Protestant and "involved in trade." After a career in the civil service he became Director of the Dublin University Museum. He was a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and President of the Geological Society of Ireland

Robert Ball was the father of Robert Stawell Ball a physicist and astronomer and Valentine Ball a geologist and naturalist.

[edit] Works

On the museum.

(1846) First Report on the Progress of the Dublin University Museum, January 1846. Dublin.
(1847) Second Report on the Progress of the Dublin University Museum, June 1847. Dublin.
(1848) The Dublin University Museum, December, 1848. Dublin.
(1853) Evidence. In Dublin University Commission, Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state, discipline, studies and revenues of the University of Dublin and Trinity College. Dublin. 153-169.

Scientific

1841. On a species of Loligo, found on the shore of Dublin Bay. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 1 (19). 362-364.
1842 Notes of the acetabuliferous Cephalopoda of Ireland, including two species of Rossiae. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 2: 192-194.