Author:Henry Ogg Forbes

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Henry Ogg Forbes
(1851–1932)

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Scottish explorer, ornithologist, and botanist; husband of Anna Forbes

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "H. O. F."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "H. O. F."

Works

A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, (1885) (external scan)
A hand-book to the primates, (1896) (in two volumes) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
Butler, Arthur G.; Mathew, Rev. Murray A.; Forbes, Henry O.; Cordeaux, John; Tegetmeier, W.B.; Slater, Rev. Henry H.; Aplin, O.V.; Macpherson, Rev. H.A. (1896). British Birds with their Nests and Eggs. London: Brumby & Clarke. (in six volumes, published 1896-1898; Forbes contributed, together with his wife Anna Forbes to the text about the Orders Herodiones and Odontoglossæ in volume 4, and about the Order Gaviæ in volume 6.) (external scan)
The natural history of Sokotra and Abdel-Kuri, (1903) (external scan)
"Sokotra," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

"Bird or Reptile-Which?" in Popular Science Monthly, 13 (October 1878)

Contributions to Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

On a New Genus of Fishes of the Family Percidæ, from New Zealand (1889)
Remarks on the Shoulder-girdles of Aptornis and Cnemiornis (1889)
On the Physical Characters, Climate, People, and Prospects of the British Possessions in New Guinea, with some Personal Experiences of Travel there (1889)
On Avian Remains found under a Lava-flow near Timaru, in Canterbury (1890)
Note on the Disappearance of the Moa (1890)
Preliminary Notice of Additions to the Extinct Avi-fauna of New Zealand (1891)
Note on a Species of Platycercus (P. erythrotis, Wagl.) from Antipodes Island (1891)
On a Species of Regalecus or Great Oar-fish, caught in Okain's Bay (1891)
On some Points in the Anatomy of a Species of Sea-bear caught off Sumner, Canterbury, New Zealand; with Notes on the New Zealand Eared Seals (1891)

Works about Forbes

"Forbes, Henry Ogg," in The Dictionary of Australasian Biography (p. 169), by Philip Mennell, London: Hutchinson & Co. (1892)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1932, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 92 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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