George Edward Dobson FRS FLS FZS (4 September 1848 at Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland – 26 November 1895) was an Irish zoologist, photographer and army surgeon.
[4] In 1868 he visited the Andaman Islands, collecting zoological specimens for the Indian Museum along with Wood-Mason,[5] and in May 1872 he made ethnological and photographic studies of the Andamanese peoples.
[7] Dobson was an expert on small mammals, especially bats (Chiroptera) and Insectivora.
He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and of the Biological Society of Washington.
[8] 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.