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November 18, 1854. Edward Forbes died.—Though only thirty-nine when he died, Forbes was regarded as the leading British naturalist of the first half of the nineteenth century. He wrote important geological, botanical, and palæontological papers, and furthered the study of marine zoology. Naturalist to the Beacon Expedition of 1841, he became professor of botany at King's College, London, and just before his death professor of natural history at Edinburgh.
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S., E. Calendar of Scientific Pioneers. Nature 108, 387 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108387a0
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