38 Sketch of the Life of the late Professor Edward Forbes. 



that year he went to Algiers ; and in the Annals of Natural 

 History for ]\Iay 1839, he writes on the Land and Freshwater 

 MoUusca of Algiers and Bongia. In 1838 appeared his ' Mala- 

 cologia Monensis, or Catalogue of the Mollusca of the Isle of 

 Man and of the Irish Sea/ At this time also he wrote many 

 papers on zoology and geolog}\ 



In the winter of that year his literary, artistic, and humorous 

 powers were called into play in a publication named ' The Maga/ 

 which became for a time a most popular work with students, 

 more especially at the period subsequent to the snowball riots of 

 the 11th and 12th of January of that year. He was one of 

 those who took up the defence of the students on that occasion, 

 acting as chairman of their committee ; and he succeeded, with 

 the aid of Patrick Roberton, now Lord Roberton (who is figured 

 as their glorious defender), in carrying them through the trial in 

 a most triumphant manner. This publication, with the poems 

 which came from his pen at that time, as well as his sketches of 

 men and manners, have left an indelible impression on all of us. 



While all this was going on, he continued sedulously to pursue 

 his natural-history studies. His usual working hours were from 

 breakfast-time till 2 or 3 in the afternoon, after which he con- 

 sidered that he was entitled to a certain amount of relaxation 

 from severer study. The same plan has been adopted by him 

 ever since, when practicable : and one reason among others for 

 his objecting to take an early hour for lectures was the encroach- 

 ment which would thus have been made on the hours devoted to 

 original observations. 



In 1838 he visited Styria and Carniola, with the view of 

 examining their natural history. His observations were recorded 

 in the Proceedings of the Botanical Society. Thus on the 13th 

 of November 1838 he read a paper on the Primula elatior of 

 Jacquin, gathered by him during the summer of 1838 on the 

 irountains of Styria'; on the 13th of December 1838 he gave an 

 account of three days" excursion to the mountains of Ternova 

 in Carniola, made in company with Signor Tommasini of Trieste. 

 On the 10th of January and 11th of April 1839 he read com- 

 munications on certain continental plants allied to British spe- 

 cies, the plants having been chiefly collected in Carniola and in 

 the neighbourhood of Trieste. 



In the summers of 1839-40 he delivered a scientific course of 

 lectures on zoology, as well as one of a more popular nature, in 

 which he pointed out the bearings of zoology on geology, a 

 subject of which he was afterwards the most able expounder in 

 Bi'itain. 



In 1839, at the Birmingham Meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation, he and other naturalists finding that they had not their 



