title: James Macrae (botanist)
text: # James Macrae (botanist)
  
  James Macrae was a Scottish botanist.
  
  ## Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde
  
  In 1824, James Macrae was sent by the Royal Horticultural Society, aboard the H.M.S Blonde to gather botanical and agricultural information, collect plants and give seeds to Hawaiians. Another naturalist Andrew Bloxam whose brother Rowland was ship's chaplain. Ship's artist Robert Dampier also made several important paintings on the voyage. Maria Graham (later, Maria Callcott) wrote a book about the voyage of the H.M.S. Blonde including an account of the voyage and funeral ceremony for the Hawaiian sovereigns whose bodies were being returned to the Kingdom of Hawai'i.
  
  After the specimen hunting voyage to the Kingdom of Hawai'i, Macrae was sent to Ceylon to work at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya.
  
  ## Death
  
  James Macrae died in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1830.
  
  ## Written works
  
  The standard author abbreviation J.Macrae is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
  
  