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Daniel McAlpine (1849-1932) was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. He received his early education in Scotland, and matriculated in 1873 at the University of London, attending lectures at the Royal School of Mines. Following this he was appointed professor of Natural History at the Veterinary College in Edinburgh. He married in 1878, and following the death of a child, he and his wife immigrated to Australia, arriving in Melbourne in 1884, where he became a lecturer in biology at Ormond College and a lecturer in botany at the Melbourne College of Pharmacy.

He is noted for his work on plant pathology, particularly the fungal diseases of plants (having been appointed in 1890 to the Victorian Department of Agriculture as plant pathologist, consequent to the epidemic of wheat rust in 1889).