| George Edward Dobson | |
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| Born | September 4, 1848 Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland |
| Died | November 26, 1895 |
| Nationality | Ireland |
| Fields | zoology |
George Edward Dobson FRS (September 4, 1848 at Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland - November 26, 1895) was a zoologist, photographer and army surgeon.
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He was the eldest son of Parke Dobson [1][2] and was educated at the Royal School Enniskillen and then at Trinity College, Dublin. [1] He gained the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1866, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and Master of Surgery in 1867 and Master of Arts in 1875.[1][2]
In 1872 he was posted to the Andaman Islands, where he made a number of anthropological photographs of the Andamanese. He became an army surgeon after 1867 serving in India, a posting he kept until his retirement in 1888.
Around 1878, he became curator of the Royal Victoria Museum at Netley.[3]
Dobson was an expert on small mammals, especially bats ( the Chiroptera) and Insectivora. He was a member of several scientific societies, the Royal Society (elected 1883), the Linnean Society of London and the Zoological Society of London. He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and of the Biological Society of Washington.[4]
In addition Dobson also contributed to the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica where he wrote the accounts about the vampyre bats, the moles and the shrews.[5]