FOOT'S CRAY 



3245 



FORBES 



Foot's Cray. Urban dist. and 

 parish of Kent, England. One of 

 the four contiguous parishes on the 

 riverCray St. Mary Cray, St.Paul's 

 Cray, Foot's Cray, and North Cray 

 it is 2 m. S. of Sidcup station on 

 the S.E. & C.R. Its name is de- 

 rived from that of its owner in the 

 time of Edward the Confessor, 

 Godwin Foot ; but is sometimes 

 found written Votes' and Foet's 

 Cray. N. of the village is the 

 Early English church of All Saints. 

 In the time of Henry VIII Foot's 

 Cray belonged to the Walsingham 

 family. In 1920 the official name 

 was changed to Sidcup. Pop. 8,493. 



Footscray. Suburb of Mel- 

 bourne, Victoria, Australia. It is 

 intersected by the Saltwater river, 

 and is 4 m. by 

 rly. S.W. of the 

 capital. There is 

 a dry dock here. 

 Pop. 23,643. 



Foppa, VIN- 

 CENZO (c. 1425- 

 1516 ). Italian 

 painter. Born at 

 Brescia, he stud- 

 ied, probably 

 with Squarcione, 

 at Padua. About 

 1450 he returned 

 to Brescia, but a 

 few years later 

 settled at Pavia. 

 He exercised an 

 enormous influ- 

 ence on the Mil- 

 anese school, and 

 the best collec- 

 tion of his paint- 

 ings is at Milan. 

 The National 

 Gallery possesses 

 an Adoration of the Magi by him. 



Forage OR FODDER CROPS. 

 Plants grown for the use of their 

 stems and leaves as provender. 

 Grasses, etc., cultivated for hay or 

 grazing, and such things as kohl- 

 rabi and cabbage, are classified 

 as root crops. Forage crops are 

 often taken as catch crops in S. 

 Britain, and may either be cut 



satirical talent at its best in the 

 Courrier Fran9ais and Le Rire, and 

 later in the Past !, an anti-Drey- 

 fusard sheet founded by himself 

 and Caran d'Ache. He is, above all, 

 the interpreter and castigator, in 

 exquisite draughtsmanship, of the 

 seamy side of Paris life, but his im- 

 pressionist paintings are interesting. 

 Foraminifera (Lat. foramen, 

 small hole). Minute creatures of 

 low organization, belonging to the 

 sub-kingdom Protozoa. Many of 

 them are scarcely visible to the 

 naked eye. Most of them are 

 marine. They secrete a limy or 

 membranous shell, usually per- 

 forated with minute holes through 

 which thread-like processes of the 

 body protoplasm can be extruded. 



Foraminifera. 1. Frondicuiaria Goldfnssi, Cretaceous, 

 Bohemia. 2. Spiroloculina badensis, Miocene, Baden, 

 Vienna. 3. Quinqueloculina saxorum, Eocene, Paris. 

 4. Cornuspira polygyra, Oligocene, Hungary. 5. Textu- 

 laria globifera, Upper Cretaceous, Traunstein, Tyrol. 6. 

 Nodosaria spinicosta, Miocene, Vienna. 7. Dentalina 

 elegans, Miocene, Vienna. 8. Cristelaria rotulata, Creta- 

 ceous, Bohemia. 9 and 11. Rotalia Beccarii, Pliocene, 

 Siena. 10. Globigerina conglomerata, Pliocene, Car- 

 Nicobar, Bay of Bengal 



With the aid of these pseudopodia 

 (false feet) the animal is able to 

 creep about and to secure the par- 

 ticles of organic matter on which it 

 feeds. The ooze of the ocean beds, 

 and the vast deposits of limestone 

 which form so large a portion of the 

 earth's crust, are largely composed 

 of the dead shells of foraminifera. 

 For bach. Town of France, in 



green or fed on the land. On the Lorraine. It is5m. S.W. of Saar- 

 whole, they increase fertility and briick, and 33 m. E. by N. of Metz. 



help to keep down weeds, but are 

 only available for a short time. The 

 chief forage crops are cereals and 

 grasses : barley, winter oats, and 

 rye, as catch crops ; Italian rye- 

 grass (cut green) ; cruciferous 

 forms : rape and mustard ; legu- 

 minous forms : gorse, lucerne, 

 lupins, sainfoin, trifolium, and 

 trefoil. See Agriculture ; Crops. 



Forain, JEAN Louis (b. 1852). 

 French artist. Born at Reims, he 

 studied under Gerome at the 

 Beaux Arts. After contributing to 

 the Monde Parisien and other illus- 

 trated journals, he expressed his 



The French were defeated at the 

 battle of Spicheren on the hills 

 near by (Aug. 6, 1870), and the 

 Germans occupied the town. It 

 was returned to France with Alsace- 

 Lorraine in 1919. Pop. 10,100. 



Forbes. Town of New South 

 Wales, Australia. It stands on the 

 Lachlan river, 290 m. W. of Sydney. 

 It is an important centre of sheep 

 and horse breeding. Pop. 4,654. 



Forbes, ALEXANDER PENROSE 

 (1817-75). Scottish divine. Born 

 at Edinburgh, June 6, 1817, and 

 educated there and at Glasgow, in 

 1836 he entered the Indian civil 



service. His health failing, he re- 

 turned to England and won a 

 Sanskrit scholarship at Brasenose 

 College, Oxford. Ordained in 1844, 

 he became in turn incumbent of 

 Stonehaven and vicar of S. 

 Saviour's, Leeds. He was ap- 

 pointed bishop of Brechin in 1848. 

 A prominent high churchman, 

 he was tried in the ecclesiastical 

 courts on a charge of heresy, arising 

 out of the statement of his views 

 on the Eucharist contained in his 

 primary charge, and was censured. 

 He was the author of numerous 

 commentaries and liturgical works. 

 He died in Dundee, Oct. 8, 1875. 

 Forbes, ARCHIBALD( 1838-1900). 

 British war correspondent. Born in 

 Elginshire, April 17. 1838, and 

 educated at 

 King's College, 

 Aberdeen, he 

 broke off his 

 u ni ve r s i ty 

 course to enlist 

 in the Royal 

 Dragoons, and, 

 while still a 

 trooper, contri- 

 buted articles 

 to the papers. 



In the Franco- ^ " 



Prussian War 



of 1870-71 he made his reputationas 

 correspondent, first of The Morning 

 Advertiser and then of The Daily 

 News. He saw much subsequent 

 service as a war correspondent, 

 notably in the Russo-Turkish and 

 Zulu Wars, being able in the latter 

 to give Britain the first news 

 of the battle of Ulundi. Between 

 campaigns Forbes lectured. He 

 wrote Memories and Studies of War 

 and Peace, 1895, and died in 

 London, March 30, 1900. 



Forbes, DUNCAN (1685-1747). 

 Scottish lawyer. Born near Inver- 

 ness, Nov. 10, 1685, he studied law 

 at Leiden, was 

 admitted ad- 

 vocate and ap- 

 pointed sheriff 

 of Midlothian 

 in 1709, and, 

 for his services 

 in suppressing 

 the rebellion 

 of 1715, was 

 made deputy- 

 advocate. Re- 

 From an engraving turned to Par- 

 liament for the Inverness burghs 

 in 1722, he was appointed lord 

 advocate in 1725 and lord presi- 

 dent of the court of session in 

 1737. In the rebellion of 1745 he 

 strove hard to keep the rebels in 

 check, but his services were coldly 

 received by the Government. He 

 originated the idea of raising High- 

 land regiments, later adopted by 

 Pitt. He died Dec. 10, 1747. 



Duncan' Forbes, 

 Scottish lawyer 



