Person
Forbes, Henry Ogg (1851 - 1932)
- Born
- 30 January 1851
Drumblade, Aberdeenshire, Scotland - Died
- 27 October 1932
Liverpool, Lancashire, England - Occupation
- Explorer and Natural history collector
Summary
Henry Forbes was appointed as meteorological observer in Port Moresby after a number of ill-fated expeditions in New Guinea. He was later Director of the Canterbury Museum, New Zealand 1890-1893 and consulting director on museums in Liverpool 1911-1932.
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Chronology
- 1890 - 1893
- Career position - Director of the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand
- 1911 - 1932
- Career position - Consulting Director to the museums in Liverpool
Published resources
Book Sections
- Gibbney, H. J., 'Forbes, Henry Ogg (1851-1932), scientist and explorer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4: 1851 - 1890 D-J, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1972), pp. 195-196. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040214b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1349901. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/64933667. Details
- 'Forbes, Henry O (1851-1932)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1004242. Details
See also
- Van Steenis-Kruseman, M. J., Malaysian plant collectors and collections: being a cyclopaedia of botanical exploration in Malaysia and a guide to the concerned literature up to the year 1950 (Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff NV, 1950), clii, 639 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 12 February 2018
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