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He was the eldest son of Parke Dobson and was educated at the Royal School Enniskillen and then at Trinity College, Dublin.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... grows longer, and it is then slightly or considerably shorter. The length of this incisor, however, is variable within a short compass; and I have found it in the same individual shorter than the outer cusp of the inner incisor on one side of the mouth, and longer than it on the other. Lower incisors very slightly crowded. The second upper premolar is separated by a small space from the canine, and through this interval the summit of the small internal first premolar is visible. Measurements of an adult female specimen preserved in alcohol--length, head and body l"-55, tail l"-45, head 0"-55, ear 0"-5, tragus 0",22, forearm l"-2, thumb 0"-22, second finger 2"-1, fourth finger l"-55, tibia 0"-45, foot and claws 0"-22. Hab. The temperate regions of Asia north of the Himalaya, and generally distributed throughout Europe and its islands. Vespertilio imbricatus, Temm. (non Horsfield) Monogr. Mammal, ii. p. 216, pi. 54; Wagner, Suppl. Schreb. Saugeth. v. p. 738 (1855). Vespertilio abramus, Temm. I. c. p. 232, pi. 58; Wagner, I. c. p. 739. Scotophilus javanicus, Gray, Mag. Zool. Bot. ii. p. 498 (1838). Scotophilia coromandra, Gray, I. c. Vespertilio coromandelicus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. p. 159 (1855). Scotophilus coromandelicus, Horsfield, A. # M. JV. H. 1855, p. 5. Vespertilio coromandelicus, Tomes, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 539. Pipistrellus coromandelicus, Dobson, J. A. S. B. 1871, p. 461. Vesperugo imbricatus (Hutton), Peters, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 707. Muzzle obtuse, more so than in V. pipistrellus, glandular prominences on the sides large, rounded, adding more to the width than to the depth of the muzzle, and causing a furrow between them and the crown of the head. Ears triangular, as in V. pipistrellus;...
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He was the eldest son of Parke Dobson and was educated at the Royal School Enniskillen and then at Trinity College, Dublin.
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.
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.
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Royal Society; Linnean Society of London. Zoological Society of London]
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.