And if I deserve to rise
To a good place in Paradise,
May my soul kind angels guide,
And keep it from the official side!
A list of Forbes's principal writings is given in the appendix to his ‘Life’ by Wilson and Geikie, but many of his articles and critiques in periodicals, some not being identified, are not included. A list of his scientific papers is given in the Royal Society's ‘Catalogue of Scientific Papers,’ vol. ii. The following chronological list gives only the more important of the memoirs, in addition to the separate works: 1835. ‘Natural History Tour in Norway;’ four papers in Loudon's ‘Magazine of Natural History,’ 1st ser. vols. viii. and ix.; many papers in ‘University Maga;’ ‘Records of Dredging,’ ‘Mag. Nat. Hist.’ vols. viii. and ix. 1837–8. Many articles in ‘University Maga,’ vol. ii. 1838. ‘Malacologia Monensis;’ ‘The University Snowdrop;’ ‘On the Distribution of Pulmoniferous Mollusca in Europe,’ ‘British Association Report.’ 1839–40. ‘On the British Ciliograda’ (with J. Goodsir), ‘Brit. Assoc. Reports.’ 1841. ‘A History of British Starfishes.’ 1842. ‘Letters on Travels in Lycia,’ ‘Ann. Nat. Hist.’ vols. ix. and x. 1843. ‘On the Radiata of the Eastern Mediterranean,’ ‘Trans. Linn. Soc.’ vol. xix.; ‘Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Ægean Sea,’ ‘Brit. Assoc. Report.’ 1844. ‘On the Morphology of the Sertularian Zoophyte,’ ‘Ann. Nat. Hist.’ vol. xiv. 1845. ‘Report on and Catalogue of Lower Greensand Fossils,’ ‘Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.’ vol. i.; ‘Geographical Distribution of Insects’ and other articles in ‘Penny Cyclopædia,’ supplement. 1846. ‘On the Geology of Lycia’ (with Lieutenant Spratt, R.N.), ‘Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.’ vol. ii.; ‘Travels in Lycia’ (with Lieutenant Spratt), 2 vols.; ‘On the Connection between the Distribution of the existing Fauna and Flora of the British Isles and Geological Changes,’ ‘Memoirs of the Geological Survey,’ vol. i.; ‘Monograph on the Cretaceous Fossils of Southern India,’ ‘Trans. Geol. Soc.’ 2nd ser. vol. vii.; ‘On Palæozoic and Secondary Fossil Molluscs of South America,’ Appendix to Darwin's ‘Geology of South America.’ 1848–52. ‘History of British Mollusca’ (with Mr. Hanley), 4 vols. 1848. ‘Palæontological Map of the British Isles,’ Keith Johnston's ‘Physical Atlas;’ ‘Monograph of the Naked-eyed Medusæ,’ Ray Soc.; ‘Monograph of the British Fossil Asteriadæ,’ and ‘Monograph of the Silurian Cystideæ of Britain,’ ‘Mem. Geol. Survey,’ vol. ii. pt. ii. 1849. ‘British Organic Remains,’ Decade I., ‘Mem. Geol. Survey.’ 1850. ‘British Organic Remains,’ Decade III. (Echinoderms), ‘Mem. Geol. Survey.’ 1851. ‘On Australian Mollusca,’ ‘Voyage of the Rattlesnake,’ vol. ii. 1852. ‘On Arctic Echinoderms,’ Appendix to Dr. Sutherland's ‘Arctic Voyage;’ ‘Monograph of British Tertiary Echinoderms,’ Palæontographical Soc.; ‘The Future of Geology,’ ‘Westminster Review,’ July. 1853. ‘On the Fluvio-Marine Tertiaries of the Isle of Wight,’ ‘Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.’ vol. ix.; ‘On the Geology of Lebanon,’ Appendix to Risk Allah Effendi's work on Syria. 1854. Map of Homoiozoic Belts, Johnston's ‘Physical Atlas;’ Presidential address to Geol. Soc.; Inaugural address at Edinburgh, ‘Edinb. Monthly Journ. of Science.’ 1855. Literary papers selected from contributions to the ‘Literary Gazette,’ edited by Lovell Reeve, 1 vol. 1858. ‘On the Fluvio-Marine Tertiary Strata of the Isle of Wight,’ completed by Austen, Ramsay, and Bristow, ‘Mem. Geol. Survey.’ 1859. ‘Natural History of European Seas,’ completed by Mr. R. Godwin-Austen, 1 vol.
[Memoir by Professors George Wilson and A. Geikie, 1861; by Professor J. Hughes Bennett, in Monthly Journ. of Medicine, January 1855; by Hugh Miller, in Witness, 22 Nov. 1854; Scotsman, 22 Nov. 1854; British Quarterly Review, 1861, vol. xxxiv.; Literary Gazette, 25 Nov. 1854.]
FORBES, Sir FRANCIS (1784–1841), chief justice of New South Wales, born in the Island of Bermuda, North America, in 1784, was the eldest son of the Hon. Francis Forbes, a member of the privy council of Bermuda. Admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 26 May 1806, he was called to the bar in Easter term 1812 (Lincoln's Inn Registers). He became attorney- and advocate-general at Bermuda in 1813, and was promoted to the office of chief justice of Newfoundland in 1816. On 1 June 1823 he was nominated chief justice of New South Wales, his being the first appointment to that office. He promulgated the new charter of justice at Government House and elsewhere on 17 May 1824, and took his seat on the bench the same day. Under this charter a supreme court of criminal jurisdiction was opened by Forbes on the following 10 June, and by his exertions trial by jury was obtained in quarter sessions on 14 Oct. He was appointed to the legislative council by sign-manual, 11 Aug. 1825, and became a member of the executive council during the same year. Thanks to his strong remonstrances an attempt by Governor Ralph Darling [q. v.] to gag the colonial press in 1826 proved only partially successful. His health breaking down under the strain of his varied duties, he left for England in April 1836.
