EDWARD FORBES 19 



For the creature itself, we may judge what a loss it is 

 When it's claw and it's bill are such great curiosities. 

 Do-do ! Do-do ! 

 Ornithologists all have been puzzled by you. 



Ending with the moral — 



Do-do ! alas there are left us 



No more remains of the Didus ineptus, etc., etc. 



During his last few years at Edinburgh, Forbes made 

 strenuous efforts to earn a livelihood by science. He prepared 

 and announced courses of lectures at Edinburgh, St. Andrews, 

 and elsewhere, which, I fear, were but j)oorly attended, and 

 probably little more than paid expenses. It is interesting 

 to notice that in January, 1840, he gave a course of eight 

 lectures in Liverpool ; and it was probably on the occa- 

 sion of these lectures that he made the acquaintance of 

 Mr. Robert MacAndrew, a Liverpool merchant and yachts- 

 man interested in the moUusca, who during the last decade 

 or so of Forbes 's life, frequently took him and Goodsir or 

 other friends on shorter or longer dredging expeditions.^ For 

 example, in the summer of 1845 we find that he was with 

 MacAndrew on his yacht dredging in Shetland seas, and on 

 the way back amongst the sea-lochs of the Hebrides. On 

 other occasions MacAndrew took him in the yacht to dredge 

 Milford Haven, or off the coast of Cornwall, or other localities 

 which Forbes required to examine in connection with the 

 great work on the British MoUusca upon which he was then 

 engaged. Again, we find Forbes and Goodsir, in their 

 important paper, On Some Bemarkable Marine Invertebrata 

 new to the British Seas, published by the Royal Society of 



^ I am glad to have the opportunity of paying this tribute to a 

 Liverpool yachtsman who found or helped to find many of the rarer 

 mollusca of British seas. His name occurs frequently in the records 

 of Forbes and Hanley's British Mollusca, and it is perpetuated in 

 science in Calocaris macandrece, one of the rarer deep-water Crus- 

 tacea, and in the names of several species of new shellfish which he 

 had been instrumental in discovering. 



