Henry Ogg Forbes

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Henry Ogg Forbes (born January 30, 1851 in Drumblade , †  October 27, 1932 in Liverpool ) was a British explorer and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " HOForbes ".

Life

Forbes studied natural sciences and traveled from 1878 to 1883 to the East Indies , particularly Java , Sumatra and Timor , in particular to carry out botanical research. From Timor, whose Portuguese eastern part he visited from the end of 1882 to 1883, he created a detailed report on the mountainous interior of the island. He had put his wife Anna in a house above the colonial capital Dili , while he himself went on an expedition into the hills with a large entourage during the rainy season. His passion for collecting was slowed down again and again because he was not allowed to enter places that were considered sacred ( lulik ). During his expedition to the Samoro Empire , Forbes received the news that his wife was seriously ill with a fever. He then quickly returned to Dili. His wife had recovered on his arrival, but Forbes decided in June 1883 to hurriedly leave for Batavia, from where he reached his native Scotland a month later.

In April 1885 he left London again to explore New Guinea . He landed in Port Moresby on August 31st and set out for the Owen Stanley Mountains on September 25th , but only got 105 kilometers. A second attempt in May 1886 also failed. The end of 1898 he went with William Robert Ogilvie-Grant to a mainly zoological purposes serving expedition to Socotra and its neighboring island Abd el-Kuri .

Forbes was director of the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand between 1890 and 1893 . From 1911 to 1932 he was the advisory director of the museum in Liverpool.

Works

  • A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago . - London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1885.
  • Three months' exploration in the Tenimber Islands or Timor Laut . - London: Royal Geographical Society, 1884.
  • Progress of an expedition to New Guinea . 1886.

Web links

Commons : Henry Ogg Forbes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A. McWilliam, L. Palmer and C. Shepherd: Lulik encounters and cultural frictions in East Timor: Past and present , 2014, Aust J Anthropol, 25: pp. 304-320. doi: 10.1111 / taja.12101 .
personal data
SURNAME Forbes, Henry Ogg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British explorer and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Drumblade , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1932
Place of death Liverpool