Memoir of Edward Forbes, F.R.S., late Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh / by George Wilson and Archibald Geikie.

Date:
1861
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Credit: Memoir of Edward Forbes, F.R.S., late Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh / by George Wilson and Archibald Geikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    extracts from papers by Broderip and Sowerby; “ Suc- cession of Secondary Bocks, from Cuvier’s Essay,” with two pages of illustrative drawings ; “ Leach’s Arrange dent of the Cirrhipedes“ Additions to the British Fauna,” from various authorities, etc. etc. etc. In making these full extracts or quotations he was only carrying out a scheme begun long before. One of them (dated 1831) is entitled, “ Notes on British Botany from the English Flora, forming an appendix to my Nat. Hist., Div. British Botany.” The “ Natural History” thus referred to is a small ms. quarto, marked on the fly-leaf “Vol. 1. Compiled and Transcribed during the years 1828-1829, 30-31.” It was thus begun in the Isle of Man when he was thirteen, and probably completed in Edinburgh when he was sixteen. It consists of above a hundred pages, and is divided into six sections :— 1. Botany according to the Lin naan System. II. Mineralogy according to Professors Mohs and Jameson. III. Geognosy according to [authority not given]. IV. Organic Remains according to Linnaeus, Cuvier, Parkinson, etc., with an Appendix containing a Table of British Fossil Shells, from Parkinson, with additions. V. Conchology according to Fleming. VI. Zoophytes. These sections are drawn up in the form of tabulated columns, with headings and detailed indices. The Bo- tanical Section is the fullest, and to judge from the boyish handwriting, as well as from its place, it is the earliest, but the book has in part at least been written on separate leaves, afterwards bound together, and these may be of different dates. This division is largely illus- trated by coloured drawings of a very rude sort, but with