380 Biographical Notice of Edward Forbes. 
stay in the Mediterranean, he made several excursions into Lycia, 
where he had an opportunity of combining his love of art with 
the pursuit of natural history. On one occasion, in company 
with Mr. Hoskin, they discovered and fixed the sites of two of 
the Cibyratic cities. A second excursion undertaken with the 
Rey. Mr. Daniell and Captain, then Lieutenant, Spratt, was still 
more important; the sites of eighteen ancient cities hitherto un- 
known to geographers were explored and determined, and the 
names of fifteen were identified by inscriptions found amongst 
the ruins. During this expedition Mr. Daniell fell a victim to the 
malignant malaria of the country, and the life of Edward Forbes 
himself was at one time in danger. Indeed there can be little 
doubt that at this time were sown the seeds of that disease which 
has eventually deprived us of his services. He, however, gradu- 
ally recovered, and was on the point of proceeding to Egypt and 
the Red Sea on a dredging excursion, when he was informed that 
he had been elected to fill the Chair of Botany in King’s College, 
vacant by the death of Professor Don. He returned immediately 
to England, and, on the 8th May, 1843, delivered his inaugural 
lecture in that institution. 
But previously to this event, Professor Forbes had become inti- 
mately connected with this Society. At the close of 1842, Mr. 
Lonsdale, who for so many years had been the curator of our 
museum, resigned his office in consequence of the state of his 
health. In the report of the Council read at the Annual General 
Meeting on February 17, 1843, I find the following passage, after 
alluding to the loss sustained by the resignation of Mr. Lonsdale : 
—‘ In recording the election of his successor, the Council cannot 
omit to-congratulate the Society on having secured the services 
of such a distinguished naturalist as Mr. E. Forbes.” I may ap- 
peal to the recollection of every member of the Society for a con- 
firmation of my statement, that the expectations then entertained, 
great as they unquestionably were, were more than fulfilled by 
the manner in which Edward Forbes conducted the business en- 
of the same year his talents as a naturalist and a paleontologist 
called him to a more extended sphere of action. On the esta 
lishment of the Museum of Practical Geology in connection with 
the Ordance Geological Survey under the direction of Sir H. 
la Beche, Professor Forbes was appointed paleontologist to that 
institution, and resigned the curatorship of the museum of this 
Societ e removal of the Museum to Jermyn Street he 
was appointed its Professor of Natural History. 
Here then his talents had full space for their development, and 
Edward Forbes was not slow in bringing to bear on his numerous 
