Background
He was born in Kawakawa, and attended local schools in his youth, including Whangarei Boys" High School and Southland Boys" High School.
He was born in Kawakawa, and attended local schools in his youth, including Whangarei Boys" High School and Southland Boys" High School.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Otago in 1956, and two years later an Master of Science for his work on mycorrhizae morphology in native New Zealand plants. McNabb earned a Doctor of Philosophy in 1963. His thesis was titled "Taxonomic studies in the Dacrymycetaceae".
In 1961, having been awarded a National Research Fellowship the year before, McNabb left New Zealand for the United Kingdom to study with Cecil Terence Ingold at Birkbeck College. Most of McNabb"s later publications, largely published in this journal, were about fungal taxonomy. Fungus species named in honor of McNabb include Paxillus mcnabbii (now Austropaxillus mcnabbii), and Entoloma mcnabbianum.
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