Edward Forbes
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Edward Forbes
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| Born | 12 February 1815 Douglas, Isle of Man |
| Died | 18 November 1854 (aged 39) Wardie, Edinburgh |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Manx |
| Fields | Natural history |
| Institutions |
Geological Society of London King's College London Geological Survey of Great Britain Royal School of Mines University of Edinburgh |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Known for | Azoic hypothesis |
| Influences | Robert Jameson |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | E.Forbes |
Professor Edward Forbes FRS, FGS (12 February 1815 – 18 November 1854) was a Manx naturalist.
Forbes was born at Douglas, in the Isle of Man. While still a child, when not engaged in reading, or in the writing of verses and drawing of caricatures, he occupied himself with the collecting of insects, shells, minerals, fossils, plants and other natural history objects. From his fifth to his eleventh year, delicacy of health precluded his attendance at any school, but in 1828 he became a day scholar at Athole House Academy in Douglas. In June 1831 he left the Isle of Man for London, where he studied drawing. In October, however, having given up the idea of making painting his profession, he returned home; and in the following month he matriculated as a medical student in the University of Edinburgh. In 1832, he pursued studies in the natural history of the Isle of Man. His brother David was a notable mineralogist.
In 1833 he made a tour in Norway, the botanical results of which were published in Loudon's Magazine of Natural History for 1835–1836. In the summer of 1834 he devoted much time to dredging in the Irish Sea; and in the succeeding year he travelled in France, Switzerland and Germany.
Born a naturalist; and having no relish for the practical duties of a surgeon, Forbes in the spring of 1836 abandoned the idea of taking a medical degree, resolving to devote himself to science and literature. The winter of 1836–1837 found him at Paris, where he attended the lectures at the Jardin des Plantes on natural history, comparative anatomy, geology and mineralogy.
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