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

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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.

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    was his “ Map of the Distribution of Marine Life, ” on which he delineated the distribution of the fishes, mol- lusca, and radiata of the sea into distinct geographical provinces ; also what he called the homoiozoic belts or bands enveloping the globe parallel to the equator, characterized by the same or analogous species; a table of the zones of depth, with copious explanatory remarks in the text and other two diagrams, one to illustrate the doctrine of generic centres, the other to show how the British seas were probably colonized by their present races of molluscan and radiate inhabitants. The “ sundry other productions” seem to have consisted chiefly of articles iir the Literary Gazette, wherein his pen this year was wonderfully prolific. Thus in the number of that journal published on January 4th, he had an article on Professor Sedgwick’s Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge, and another on the Bon Gaul- tier Ballads. Again, on the 11th of the same month, he reviewed Cheever’s “Whaling;” on the 18th, some volumes on Physical Geography. On the 15th of Feb- ruary he wrote an article on some works bearing on the reconciliation of the Chronology of Science and Revela- tion, which ends thus :—“ If these gentlemen [the authors criticised in the article] persist in their endeavours to astonish Geology, they could not do better than join the Dean of York, a philosopher of similar opinions and attainments, and by putting all three of their heads to- gether, they need not despair of forming a conglomerate, * such as will be unequalled by any puddingstone in the long catalogue of known strata,”1 1 See Literary Papers, by Edward Forbes. Reeve, 1855, p. 136.
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