PROF. EDWARD FORBES AS A ZOOLOGIST 59 



greater in Britain than in any other civilised country. The 

 majority are men highly enhghtened and of a liberal and 

 far-seeing spirit. They are to be found in all classes of the 

 community, mostly in the middle ranks; not infrequently 

 among the lower classes, and sometimes, though unfortunately 

 but seldom, among the aristocracy; this is the more to be 

 regretted since for men with cultured minds, and abundant 

 leisure and wealth, the study of Natural History is peculiarly 

 adapted. The neglect of this science in our universities is 

 the cause of this defect."^ 



Thus it is that, on the looth anniversary of his birthday, 

 geologists and zoologists alike render tribute to the dis- 

 tinguished Manxman who has shed lustre not only on his 

 native island, by the rich shores of which. his early work was 

 carried out, but on British Zoology. The name of Edward 

 Forbes indeed is indissolubly linked with the revival of 

 Marine Zoology in our country, and there was none — even 

 in that brilliant circle of George Busk, Joshua Alder, Gv\yn 

 Jeffreys, Albany Hancock, John and Harry Goodsir, P. H. 

 Gosse, W. B, Carpenter, George Johnston, J. S. Bowerbank, 

 and George Allman — who so conspicuously extended its 

 borders and won the sympathies and aid of all around him. 

 Of him as well as of his work it can fitly be said : Quocunque 

 jeceris stabit^- 



1 The Natural History of the European Seas, p. 79. 



^ The motto over the three legs in the crest of the Isle of Man. 



