The making of theMemoirof Edward Forbes, F.R.S.

John Goodsir (1814–1867) and his neurological illness

“…As a student he was, with his friend and flatmate Edward Forbes, at the heart of the 'Brotherhood of Friends of the Truth', an exclusively male society which Browne has described as a '… secret society [which] had nearly a hundred "Brothers" for its members' and that '… the Brothers were very intimate', whatever intimate means in this setting and it is speculative therefore as to whether this might have been relevant to any risk of acquired disease. 31 Yet, virtually all such societies at that time were male only. He did have a particularly close relationship with Edward Forbes and chose to be buried next to him.…”

History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 35: The Beginnings of British Marine Biology: Edward Forbes and Philip Gosse

“…Edward Forbes, Jr. (1815–1854) was from Douglas, on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, midway between Britain and Ireland (Wilson and Geikie 1861, Herdman 1923:12–36 + 3 plates, Ritchie 1956:41–58 + 3 plates, Merriman 1965, Egerton 1972, Rehbock 1979 a , b , 1983:123–187, Browne 1981, Mills 1984, 2004, White 2004). At age seven he began collecting specimens for his own natural history museum, and later his banker father even added a room to their house for it.…”

Charles Darwin as a Celebrity

“…9 L. Miller (2000) gives a literary perspective on legend-building. For the control that descendents and relatives sometimes tried to exert on the reputation of an eminent member of the family, see (in part) Browne 1978 and1981. propagandist "personae" to the fore, personae that are familiar analytical entities in literary studies and the fine arts. 10 However, the last twenty years of Darwin's life allow questions of a more autobiographical nature in so far as he may have participated in the construction of his public identity.…”