Edward Forbes
Zoologist, botanist and palaeontologist. Naturalist on board H.M.S. Beacon, 1841–2. Appointed professor of botany, King's College, London, and curator of the museum of the Geological Society of London, 1842. Palaeontologist with the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1844–54. Professor of natural history, Edinburgh University, 1854. FRS 1845.
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