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George Edward Dobson Born September 4, 1848
Edgeworthstown, County Longford, IrelandDied November 26, 1895 Nationality Ireland Fields zoology George Edward Dobson FRS (September 4, 1848 at Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland - November 26, 1895) was a zoologist, photographer and army surgeon.
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Biography
He was the eldest son of Parke Dobson [1][2] and was educated at the Royal School Enniskillen and then at Trinity College, Dublin. [1] He gained the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1866, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and Master of Surgery in 1867 and Master of Arts in 1875.[1][2]
In 1872 he was posted to the Andaman Islands, where he made a number of anthropological photographs of the Andamanese. He became an army surgeon after 1867 serving in India, a posting he kept until his retirement in 1888.
Around 1878, he became curator of the Royal Victoria Museum at Netley.[3]
Achievements
Dobson was an expert on small mammals, especially bats ( the Chiroptera) and Insectivora. He was a member of several scientific societies, the Royal Society (elected 1883), the Linnean Society of London and the Zoological Society of London. He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and of the Biological Society of Washington.[4]
Works
- Catalogue of the Chiroptera in Collection of British Museum (1878)
- Monograph of the Asiatic Chiroptera (1876)
- A Monograph of the Insectivora, systematic and anatomical (three parts, John Van Voorst, Londres, 1882-1890.
In addition Dobson also contributed to the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica where he wrote the accounts about the vampyre bats, the moles and the shrews.[5]
References
- ^ a b c Proceedings of the Royal Society. Volume 59. p 15. Royal Society. 1896
- ^ a b Obituary. British Medical Journal.1895 November 30; 2(1822): 1392
- ^ Hugh Chisholm: The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information (1910-1922) p. VIII
- ^ New York Times Obituary: George Edward Dobson dead. November 26, 1895
- ^ Sidney Lee (editor): Dictionary of National Biography. Supplement Volume 2: Chippendale to Hoste. The MacMillan Company, New York; Smith, Elder & Co, London. 1901.
External links
Works written by or about George Edward Dobson at Wikisource- Chrono-Biographical Sketches Dobson, George Edward (Ireland 1848-1895)
Categories:- 1848 births
- 1895 deaths
- Members of the Linnean Society of London
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Fellows of the Zoological Society of London
- Zoologists
- People from County Longford
- Irish zoologists
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