Henry Ogg Forbes

Henry Ogg Forbes ( born January 30, 1851 in Drum Blade, † October 27, 1932 in Liverpool ) was a British explorer and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " HOForbes ".

Life

Forbes studied natural sciences and toured from 1878 to 1883, the East Indies, especially Java, Sumatra and Timor, in particular to carry out botanical research. In April 1885 he left London again to explore New Guinea. He landed in Port Moresby on 31 August and broke on September 25 at the Owen Stanley Mountains, however, was only 105 miles. A second attempt in May 1886 failed. The end of 1898 he went with William Robert Ogilvie - Grant on a mainly zoological purposes serving expedition to Socotra and its neighboring island of Abd el- Kuri. Between 1890 and 1893 Forbes was director of the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand. From 1911 to 1932 he was an advisory director of the museum in Liverpool.

Works

  • A naturalist 's wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. - London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1885.
  • Three months ' exploration in the Tenimber Islands or Timor sound. - London: Royal Geographical Society, 1884.
  • Progress of an expedition to New Guinea. In 1886.
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