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'George Edward Dobson' FRS (September 4, 1848 at Edgeworthstown, Longford, Ireland - November 26, 1895) was a zoologist, photographer and army surgeon.
He was the son of Parke Dobson and was educated at the Royal School Enniskillen and then at Trinity College, Dublin.He gained the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1866, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Chemistry in 1867 and Master of Arts in 1875.
In 1872 he was posted to the Andaman Islands, where he made a number of anthropological photographs of Andaman islanders.
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 museum at Netley Hospital.
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 de Washington.
★ ''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.
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Biography
He was the son of Parke Dobson and was educated at the Royal School Enniskillen and then at Trinity College, Dublin.He gained the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1866, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Chemistry in 1867 and Master of Arts in 1875.
In 1872 he was posted to the Andaman Islands, where he made a number of anthropological photographs of Andaman islanders.
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 museum at Netley Hospital.
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 de Washington.
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.
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