FORBES] 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
211 
Idem. 4th edit. Ib. : 1899. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xviii + pp. 386, engr. title and 12 
steel plates. (Pub. 12s. 6d.) 
Forbes (Edward), 1815-54 
Forbes, who was bom at Douglas, Isle of Man, February 
12, 1815, was the son of Edward Forbes, a banker, and was 
intended by his parents for the medical profession. He 
was entered at Edinburgh University in 1831, but his love 
for Nature was too strong to be overcome. During the 
vacation of 1832 he first turned his attention to Manx natural 
history. Between 1833-37 he travelled extensively on the 
Continent, and in 1838 published his earliest work, Malacologia 
Monensis , a Catalogue of the Mollusca inhabiting the Isle of 
Man. In 1841 he sailed for Syria in The Beacon , and ex- 
plored the greater part of Asia Minor. After his return in 
1843 he became Professor of Botany at King’s College, London. 
In 1852 he was appointed to the Chair of Natural History in 
the University of Edinburgh. The Account of Manx Zoology 
contributed to the 1845 edition of Quiggin’s Guide , deals 
only briefly with the birds. Forbes’s name is, however, 
best remembered by his History of British Mollusca (4 vols. 
1853), published in conjunction with Sylvanus Hanley, by 
his British Starfishes (1841) and Zoology of the Voyage of 
H.M.S. Herald (1854). The latter was his last work. He 
died November 18, 1854, in his thirty-ninth year. 
1845. [Natural History in] Quiggin’s | Illustrated Guide | and Visitor’s 
Companion | through the | Isle of Man : | With a | Directory for 
Douglas. | Fifth Thousand. | Douglas : | Printed and published 
by M. A. Quiggin. | Custom-house Quay. | 1845. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 130, maps and pi. 
Natural History by Forbes at pp. 40-46, containing a paragraph 
on the Birds. 
Idem. 
3rd edit. 
1847. 
12mo. 
Idem. 
4th edit. 
1848. 
Not seen. 
Idem. 
5th edit. 
1856. 
12mo. 
Idem. 
6th edit. 
1858. 
12mo. 
Natural History at pp. 68-76, the paragraph on Birds slightly 
altered by another hand. 
