page_title: Edward Forbes
section_title: Scholarly years
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Forbes / Scholarly years
caption_attribution_description: English: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ships/ship3161.htm Frontispiece to Natural History of the European Seas by Edward Forbes (posthumously) and edited by Robert Godwin-Austen. Forbes' initials are in the lower right of this whimsical cartoon depicting deep sea dredging for marine fauna.
context_page_description: Professor Edward Forbes FRS, FGS was a Manx naturalist.
  In 1846, he became the first naturalist to propose that the distributions of montane plants and animals had been compressed downslope, and some oceanic islands connected to the mainland, during the recent ice age. This mechanism, which was the first natural explanation to explain the distributions of the same species on now-isolated islands and mountain tops, was discovered independently by Charles Darwin, who credited Forbes with the idea.
caption: Frontispiece to Forbes's Natural History of the European Seas (Forbes's initials are in the lower right of this cartoon depicting deep sea dredging for marine fauna)
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