George Edward Dobson

George Edward Dobson
Born 4 September 1848
Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland
Died 26 November 1895 (1895-11-27) (aged 47)
Nationality Ireland
Fields zoology

George Edward Dobson FRS (4 September 1848 at Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland – 26 November 1895) was a zoologist, photographer and army surgeon.

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

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. 1 2 3 Proceedings of the Royal Society. Volume 59. p 15. Royal Society. 1896
  2. 1 2 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, ed. (1901). "Dobson, George Edward". Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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