in what is now Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada to his memory. The following Forbes works were issued posthumously: On the Tertiary Fluviomarine Formation of the Isle of Wight (Geol. Survey), edited by RAC Godwin-Austen (1856) The Natural History of the European Seas, edited and continued by RAC Godwin-Austen (1859). Forbes's widow provided papers to George Wilson to write up the memoirs of Forbes. Wilson however died in 1859 and his sister then passed on the papers to Archibald Geikie who had met Forbes only twice. Forbes's widow married Major Yelverton in 1858 and forbade Geikie to work on the memoirs, seeking back all the papers. Forbes's brother however wished that Geikie finish the book as did the publisher Alexander Macmillan. In 1860, it was found that Yelverton had earlier married Maria Teresa Longworth and the separation had not been made with a witness. Yelverton was accused of bigamy and Teresa Longworth wrote about her plight in a book Martyrs to Circumstance. Mrs Forbes had two sons by Yelverton and with the case being in the limelight, she had no time to apply pressure on Geikie. Geikie however had to exercise considerable diplomacy while writing the biography as Forbes had claimed that he had been sufficiently remunerated by the School of Mines. See also European and American voyages of scientific exploration "The New Museum Idea" Notes References Attribution Endnotes: Literary Gazette (25 November 1854); Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (New Ser.), (1855); Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. (May 1855); G. Wilson and A. Geikie, Memoir of Edward Forbes (1861), in which, pp. 575–583, is given a list of Forbes's writings. Literary Papers, edited by Lovell Reeve (1855). External links Memoir of Edward Forbes, by George Wilson and Archibald Geikie (MacMillan and Edmonston co., 1861) Edward Forbes obituary, by Thomas Huxley (Journal of Science and Literary Gazette, 1854); Clarke College Manx Worthies: Professor Edward Forbes (and part 2), by A.W. Moore (The Manx Note Book, Vol. iii, 1887) Chrono-biographical sketch; Western Kentucky University 1815 births 1854 deaths British geologists Manx people Fellows of the Royal Society Academics of King's College London Presidents of the Geological Society of London Fellows of the Geological Society of London Academics of the University of Edinburgh Burials at the Dean Cemetery Alumni of the University of Edinburgh People from Douglas, Isle of Man British Geological Survey British malacologists Travelers in Asia Minor