A view of Edward Forbes, naturalist*

Abstract

Edward Forbes's colleagues recognized him as a talented invertebrate zoologist, a palaeontologist of note, a pioneer of biogeography, a clever, witty writer, and a thinker of a highly unusual stamp. Forbes's work and his memory have continued to intrigue biologists and historians of science for more than a century, but despite an extensive printed record Forbes remains puzzling. His philosophical approach to the natural world, which seemed anomalous to his eminent colleagues like Hooker, Darwin, Huxley, and Lyell, has remained an anomaly into the 1980s.

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