| 1815 |
Born February 12th at Douglas, Isle of Man. School – Athole House Academy. |
| 1831 |
Sent to London to train as artist but after 4 months went to Edinburgh University to study medicine. (Natural History under Jameson). |
| 1834 |
Voyage to Norway. |
| 1835 |
Toured France, Switzerland and Germany. |
| 1836 |
Finally abandoned medicine for Natural History, without taking degree. |
| 1838 |
Published “Malacologic Monensis” (Catalogue of Manx mollusca). Paper to British Association “On distribution of Terrestrial Pulmonifera in Europe”. |
| 1839 |
Admitted to Wernerian Society. Read memoir on Starfishes of the Irish Sea. (Memoir Wernerian Society VIII). |
| 1840 |
Papers to British Association “Pleistocene tract in the Isle of Man” etc. |
| 1841 |
Mediterranean voyage with Captain Graves. |
| 1842 |
Red Sea Expedition – abandoned for Chair of Botany at King’s College |
| 1843 |
Elected Curator of Geological Society. Paper to Linnaean Society on Ofhiuridae of Aegean Sea. |
| 1844 |
Government grant of £500 to assist publication of Aegean researches. Offered Fullerian Professorship. |
| 1844 |
Joined Geological Survey. |
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Resigned Geological Society Curatorship. |
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Worked with De la Beche, Ramsay and Warington-Smyth in Breconshire. |
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Elected F.G.S. Lectured at Royal Institute, continued lecturing at King’s. |
| 1845 |
Dredging in Shetland. Joined De la Beche in Wexford. Illness. |
| 1846 |
Resumed lectures. Dredging between Southampton and Land’s End. Survey work in Wales – Bala. Published “Travels in Lycia”. |
| 1847 |
Work in Ireland, London, Wales, etc. |
| 1848 |
Arranging of exhibits in new Jermyn Street Museum. Papers to British Association. |
| 1850 |
Lectures, new Museum work, etc. Cruise among Western Isles. |
| 1844 |
Visited Isle of Wight with Lyell, Ramsay and Bristow. Museum opened May 12th. School of Mines opened November. |
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Forbes became Lecturer in Natural History (retained professorship at King’s). |
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Visited Paris and Isle of Man. |
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Survey duty in Ireland. 3rd volume of British Mollusca completed. |
| 1853 |
Visited the Auvergne district. |
| 1854 |
Natural History Professor at Edinburgh in succession to Jameson. Resigned Geological Survey; King’s and President of Geological Society. Left London in May but returned in August to finish off survey work. In September President of Geological Section of British Association at Liverpool. |
| 1854 |
Died in December. |
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List of works in Appendix to Memoir: |
| 1849 |
List of works in Appendix to Memoir: Memoirs Dec. No. 1 Echinoderms (1849) |
| 1849 |
List of works in Appendix to Memoir: No. 2 Trilobites (1849) with J.W. Salter. |
| 1856 |
List of works in Appendix to Memoir: No. 3 Echinodermata (1856) |
| 1852 |
List of works in Appendix to Memoir: No. 4 Echinodermata (1852) |
| 1856 |
List of works in Appendix to Memoir: No. 5. Echinodermata (1856) with S.P. Woodward and J.W. Salter. |
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Essays in volumes I and II part 2. |
| 1856 |
Isle of Wight, Tertiary, Fluvio-Marine Formation of. (1856). |
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Memoir. G. Wilson and A. Geikie. |
