Monotonically metacompact spaces were recently introduced as an extension of the concept of monotonically compact spaces. In this note we answer a question of Popvassilev, and Bennett, Hart, and Lutzer, by showing that every compact, Hausdorff, monotonically (countably) metacompact space is metrizable. We also show that certain countable spaces fail to be monotonically (countably) metacompact.

We introduce modal de Vries algebras and develop a duality between the category of modal de Vries algebras and the category of coalgebras for the Vietoris functor on compact Hausdorff spaces. This duality serves as a common generalization of de Vries duality between de Vries algebras and compact Hausdorff spaces, and the duality between modal algebras and modal spaces.