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to devote all his energies to Science. But during this time 
he spent considerable periods away from Edinburgh, travelling 
for study and always adding to his Natural History collections 
wherever he went. 
Several summers between 1832 and 1839 he spent in 
dredging the Irish Sea, and exploring the fauna and flora 
of the Isle of Man, and we see the results later on in his first- 
published book ‘“ Malacologia Monensis,” and in certain papers 
in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 
Another summer (1833) he and a fellow student explored 
far from beaten tracks in Norway, going in a trading brig 
from Ramsey to Arendal, and then shouldering their knapsacks 
and packs of scientific collecting apparatus, which, no doubt, 
became heavier day by day as the collections grew. He had, 
of course, the noticing eye and the acquisitive hand of the 
true collector. On arriving at Bergen, his first action was 
to note that a spitting box or spittoon in the room he entered 
was filled with a fine shell-sand, which he promptly emptied 
into his handkerchief and took away with him for microscopic 
examination. Another year he spent some time in Paris, 
and the following summer made an expedition to Algeria. 
In 1839, he and Goodsir were dredging in the Shetland Seas, 
with results which Forbes made known to the meeting of the 
British Association at Birmingham that summer with such 
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good effect that a “ Dredging Committee ” of the Association 
was formed to continue the good work. 
It was at this meeting of the Association that Forbes and 
his friends founded the “‘ Red Lion Clubbe,”’ which still meets, 
not with the regularity of its early days, but on occasions, 
for jovial dinners and good fellowship—the old “ Lions,” and 
even the youngsters or “Cubs,” under the presidency of the 
“Lion King,’ roarmg and growling their approval and 
disapproval, and even getting up and waving their (coat-) tails, 
while some make witty speeches and others sing amusing songs, 
