BUSTS OF GEOLOGISTS. 
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geological maps of England and Wales, and of India ; the former 
published in 1819, and the latter in 1854, only one year before 
his death. 
Greenough’s bust stands on a pedestal of grey porphyritic 
granite from Haivasso, in Cornwall (No. 207). 
Professor Edward Forbes. — An original bust by I. C. Lough r 
1856. Presented by subscription. JS r o. 204. 
Edward Forbes was Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey 
of the United Kingdom, and lecturer on Natural History in the 
Government School of Mines. He was bom in the Isle of Man 
in 1815. 
Edward Forbes was a naturalist from his childhood, always 
delighting in the works of creation spread around him. He 
spent some time at the University of Edinburgh, and in 1833 he 
travelled with a fellow student to Norway. Eight years after 
this he was appointed naturalist to a surveying expedition to 
the Mediterranean. With Captain Graves, in H.M.S. “Beacon,” 
he proceeded to the scene which he marked by his important 
labours. In the iEgean he was enabled to determine some 
remarkable facts connected with animal life in the sea, and to 
carry out those dredging explorations which enabled him sub- 
sequently to deduce some important considerations on the 
distribution of animal life in space and time. During this 
appointment he travelled in Lycia, and fixed the sites of several 
of the Cibyratic cities. In 1843 Edward Forbes was appointed 
Professor of Botany in King’s College, London. He shortly 
afterwards became Secretary and Curator of the Geological 
Society, Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey, and on the 
organisation of the Government School of Mines, its Professor of 
Natural History. To the Memoirs of the Geological Survey 
Professor E. Forbes contributed several valuable papers; and* 
under his care was commenced the publication of the Decades* 
illustrative of British organic remains. 
On the death of Professor Jameson, the Regius Professor of 
Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, Edward Forbes 
was appointed to succeed him. This chair was the object of 
Forbes’s ambition, but he was not destined long to enjoy it ; he 
died on the 18th November 1854, only six months after his 
appointment. 
Professor Edward Forbes’s latest work, of which he left an 
outline sketch at the time of his death, “ On the Tertiary Fluvio - 
Marine Formation of the Isle of Wight f was completed by his 
colleagues, and published as one of the Memoirs of the Geological 
Survey. His life was written by the late Dr. George Wilson 
and Sir Archibald Geikie. 
Professor Forbes was succeeded in the chair of Natural History 
in the Royal School of Mines, by the late Professor T. H. Huxley. 
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