Forbes, Edward, c 1843-1847

From a typed note pasted on the page: "Forbes, Edward (1815-1854), naturalist; brother of David Forbes (1828-1876) [q.v.]; studied at Edinburgh University, where he founded the 'University Magazine'; in vacations made natural-history expeditions to Isle of Man, and to Norway, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Algeria; collected three thousand plant specimens on a tour through Austria, 1838; lectured in various places; as naturalist to the Beacon, collected marine animals and investigated their relation with plants in the Aegean, 1841; made tour through Lycia, collecting molluscs and plants, 1842; aided by a grant from British Association, to which he read a 'Report', 1843; professor of botany at King's College, London, and lecturer of the Geological Society, 1842; paleaontologist of the Geological Survey, 1844; lectured at Royal Institution on 'Light thrown on Geology by Submarine Researches'; F.R.S., 1845; showed that Purbeck beds belonged to oolitic series, 1849; president of Geological Society, 1853; professor of natural history at Edinburgh, 1854, but died within six months of appointment; published 'History of British Mollusca,', 1848, and 'History of British Star-fishes' (1842), besides important geological, botanical, and palaeontological papers. [xix. 388]".