George Edward Dobson

George Edward Dobson
George Edward Dobson
Born September 4, 1848
Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland
Died 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

  1. ^ a b c Proceedings of the Royal Society. Volume 59. p 15. Royal Society. 1896
  2. ^ a b Obituary. British Medical Journal.1895 November 30; 2(1822): 1392
  3. ^ Hugh Chisholm: The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information (1910-1922) p. VIII
  4. ^ New York Times Obituary: George Edward Dobson dead. November 26, 1895
  5. ^ Sidney Lee (editor): Dictionary of National Biography. Supplement Volume 2: Chippendale to Hoste. The MacMillan Company, New York; Smith, Elder & Co, London. 1901.

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