The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late William Alexander Forbes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late William Alexander Forbes William Alexander Forbes, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Prosector to the Zoological Society of London, and Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at Charing Cross Hospital, was born at Cheltenham on June 24, 1855, the second son of Mr. J. S. Forbes, the well-known Railway Director. He was educated at Kensington School and Winchester College, which he entered at the early age of eleven. On leaving Winchester in 1872 Forbes passed a year at Aix-la-Chapelle, studying German, and then became a student of the University of Edinburgh, where he pursued the regular medical course, paying special attention to Zoology and Botany, and commencing collections of insects and plants. In 1875 Forbes transferred his residence to London, and entered himself as a student of University College, with the idea of taking a medical degree in the metropolis. Here he quickly became intimate with other zoologists, who were very soon attracted by the astounding general knowledge of zoology and the acute intelligence of one so young. By the advice of the late Prof. Garrod and other friends Mr. Forbes was induced, in October 1876, to leave London and to enter as an undergraduate at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was subsequently elected Scholar, and took his B.A. degree with a First Class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1879. The post of Prosector to the Zoological Society of London having become vacant in October 1879, by the lamented death of Prof. Garrod, Forbes was appointed (omnium consensu) to that office in the January following: indeed Garrod on his death-bed had designated him as his most obvious and proper successor, and appointed him his literary executor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.