MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 53 
APPENDIX A. 
AN ADDRESS UPON 
THE LIFE AND WORK OF EDWARD FORBES 
GIVEN TO THE LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
By W. A. Herpman. 
During the past year enthusiastic meetings have been 
held at Douglas, and by Manx Societies in London* and 
elsewhere to celebrate the Centenary of the birth of Edward 
Forbes, the distinguished Manx Naturalist, who was a notable 
figure in British Science during the second quarter of the 
nineteenth century. Both from local associations, and from 
the fact that his investigations may fairly be regarded as pioneer 
work leading up to the Marine Biology and Oceanography 
of the present day, it seems appropriate that a short account 
of the life and work of Forbes should appear in this report-for- 
the-year of the only marine biological institution in the 
land of his birth. | 
A century ago, in 1815, the Napoleonic wars were just 
ending. In the earlier part of the year when Edward Forbes 
was born, Waterloo had not yet been fought. Napoleon 
was still at large, and the state of public affairs was, in some 
respects, not unlike what we are passing through at present. 
Kurope was then also an armed camp, most of the great 
nations were at war, and then, as now, this country “was 
fighting, along with allies, against the greatest military power 
of the time—fighting for the cause of humanity and freedom 
against the tyranny of a military autocracy. 
Before the time of the Crimean War and the Indian 
Mutiny, Forbes was dead; so his brief life was lived in a time 
* For some of the statements in the following pages I am indebted 
to speeches made on these occasions, and more especially to the excellent 
“ Memoir of Edward Forbes,” published in 1861, by Professors George Wilson 
and Archibald Geikie. 
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