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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    the midst of the preparations for the opening of the school in November, he found time to write to Mr. Thompson that he had “ had some kind letters from old Jameson/’ from whose liveliness he augured no likelihood of a resignation, and looked forward, therefore, to be at least two years longer in London,—an anticipation that was eventually fulfilled. The meeting of the British Association was held this year in Ipswich. “ I go with Mrs. Forbes to Ipswich on Thursday” [3d July], he wrote to Professor Ramsay, “ and remain till Monday afternoon. Playfair, Percy, and Hunt, I believe, are going also. The Reds are to have a great dinner there on Friday. “ I have two or three communications to make, some zoological. I want to exhibit my new map of marine distribution, with my proposed Isozoic belts on it. “ To the Geological Section I mean to make a state- ment respecting the result of my examination of the Crag Echinoderms ; also a note calling attention to some of Logan’s discoveries, and one announcing the presence of Devonian strata in the interior of Africa, north of the equator.” These papers were read with the subjoined titles :— 1. On the discovery by Dr. Overweg of Devonian Rocks in North Africa. 2. On the Echinodermata of the Crag. 3. On a new species of Maclurea from the Lower Silurian rocks of Canada. 4. On some indications of the Molluscous Fauna of the Azores and St. Helena,
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