George Edward Dobson

George Edward Dobson FRS FLS FZS (4 September 1848 at Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland – 26 November 1895) was an Irish zoologist, photographer and army surgeon.

George Edward Dobson
Born4 September 1848 (1848-09-04)
Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland
Died
26 November 1895 (1895-11-27) (aged 47)
NationalityIreland
Scientific career
Fieldszoology

Biography

He was the eldest son of Parke Dobson [1][2] and was educated at the Royal School Enniskillen and then at Trinity College, Dublin.[1] He gained the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1866, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and Master of Surgery in 1867 and Master of Arts in 1875.[1][2]

In 1872 he was posted to the Andaman Islands, where he made a number of anthropological photographs of the Andamanese. 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 Royal Victoria Museum at Netley.[3]

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 of Washington.[4]

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.

In addition Dobson also contributed to the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica where he wrote the accounts about the vampyre bats, the moles and the shrews.[5]

References
  1. Proceedings of the Royal Society. Volume 59. p 15. Royal Society. 1896
  2. Obituary. British Medical Journal.1895 November 30; 2(1822): 1392
  3. Hugh Chisholm: The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information (1910-1922) p. VIII
  4. New York Times Obituary: George Edward Dobson dead. November 26, 1895
  5. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Dobson, George Edward" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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