Sir John Forbes, a British physician and writer on medical science, born at Cuttlebrae, Banffshire, Scotland, in 1787, died in London, Nov. 13, 1861. He was educated at Marischal college, Aberdeen, served in the medical department of the navy, practised his profession at Penzance and Chichester, and finally removed to London. In 1824 he published translations of the works of Auenbrugger and Laennec on auscultation, following them up by an original work of his own on the subject. He was instrumental in founding the British medical association, to the Transactions" of which he contributed a paper on the Medical Topography of the Hundred of Penrith." He was also the chief editor of the Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine," and for 12 years conducted the "British and Foreign Medical Review," retiring in 1848. He wrote "Observations on the Climate of Penzance and Land's End" (1828);A Manual of Select Medical Bibliography (1835);Illustrations of Modern Mesmerism" (1840);Treatise on Diseases of the Chest," and "Nature and Art in the Cure of Disease" (1857);A Physician's Holiday, or a Month in Switzerland during the year 1848" (1849); Memoranda made in Ireland in 1852" (1852); and "Sight-seeing in Germany," etc. (1855). He was physician in ordinary to the household of the queen, by whom he was knighted in 1853.