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FORBES, DAVID (1828--1876)

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FORBES, See also:DAVID (1828--1876) , See also:British mineralogist, metallurgist and chemist, See also:brother of See also:Edward Forbes (q.v.), was See also:born on the 6th of See also:September 1828, at See also:Douglas, Isle of See also:Man, and received his See also:early See also:education there and at See also:Brentwood in See also:Essex. When a boy of fourteen he had already acquired a remarkable knowledge of See also:chemistry. This subject he studied at the university of See also:Edinburgh; and he was still See also:young when he was appointed See also:superintendent of the See also:mining and metallurgical See also:works at Espedal in See also:Norway. Subsequently he became a partner in the See also:firm of See also:Evans & Askin, See also:nickel-smelters, of See also:Birmingham, and in that capacity during the years 1.857-186o he visited See also:Chile, See also:Bolivia and See also:Peru. Besides reports for the See also:Iron and See also:Steel See also:Institute, of which, during the last years of his See also:life, he was See also:foreign secretary, he wrote upwards of 5o papers on scientific subjects, among which are the following: " The See also:Action of Sulphurets on Metallic Silicates at High Temperatures," See also:Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1855, pt. ii. p. 62; " The Relations of the See also:Silurian and Metamorphic Rocks of the See also:south of Norway," ib. p. 82; " The Causes producing Foliation in Rocks," Journ. Geol. See also:Soc. xi., 1855; " The Chemical See also:Composition of the Silurian and See also:Cambrian Limestones," Phil. Mag. xiii. pp.

365-373, 1857; " The See also:

Geology of Bolivia and See also:Southern Peru," Journ. Geol. Soc. xvii. pp. 7-62, 1861; " The See also:Mineralogy of Chile," Phil. Mag., 1865; " Researches in British Mineralogy," Phil. Mag., 1867-1868. His observations on the geology of South See also:America were given in a masterly See also:essay, and these and subsequent researches threw much See also:light on igneous and metamorphic phenomena and on the resulting changes in See also:rock-formations. He also contributed important articles on chemical geology to the Chemical See also:News and See also:Geological See also:Magazine (1867 and 1868). In See also:England he was a See also:pioneer in microscopic See also:petrology. He was elected F.R.S. in 1858. He died in See also:London on the 5th of See also:December 1876. See Obituary by P.

M. See also:

Duncan in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxiii., 1877, p. 41; and by J. See also:Morris in Geol. Mag., 1877, p. 45.

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