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== Personal life == In 1910 Forbes married Charlotte Irving Grinnell (1884–1982). In the summer of 1931, Forbes, the owner and captain of the 97-foot schooner Ramah, took a crew of sixteen, including a geologist and botanist on a scientific expedition along the coast of Labrador north to Cape Chidley. The expedition had two airplanes for aerial reconnaissance and photography using the new technique developed by Osborn Maitland Miller for making charts from oblique photographs from airplanes in combination with precise ground markers. The expedition, known as the Forbes–Grenfell expedition, compiled valuable maps of the coast of Labrador. Sir Wilfred Grenfell was the ship's doctor. In 1935 Forbes, as a relief pilot and photographer, accompanied only by a pilot who was also a skilled mechanic, made an eleven-day aerial expedition to photograph the region near Cape Chidley. Until extreme old age, Forbes engaged in snow skiing, horseback riding, ice skating, sailing, canoeing, kayaking, camping, and flying his private airplane. He continued to attend scientific meetings until the last year of his life. Upon his death in 1965, he was survived by his widow, a son, three daughters, and ten grandchildren.
== Selected publications ==
=== Articles === Forbes, Alexander; Gregg, Alan (1915). "Electrical Studies in Mammalian Reflexes. Part I. The Flexion Reflex". American Journal of Physiology. Legacy Content. 37 (1): 118–176. doi:10.1152/ajplegacy.1915.37.1.118. ——; Gregg, Alan (1915). "Electrical Studies in Mammalian Reflexes. Part II. The Correlation between Strength of Stimuli and the Direct and Reflex Nerve Response". American Journal of Physiology. Legacy Content. 39 (2): 172–235. doi:10.1152/ajplegacy.1915.39.2.172. ——; Rappleye, W. C. (1917). "The Rate of Discharge of Central Neurones". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 3 (1): 12–15. Bibcode:1917PNAS....3...12F. doi:10.1073/pnas.3.1.12. PMC 1091161. PMID 16586676. Cobb, Stanley; —— (1923). "Electromyographic Studies of Muscular Fatigue in Man". American Journal of Physiology. Legacy Content. 65 (2): 234–251. doi:10.1152/ajplegacy.1923.65.2.234. Davis, H.; ——; Brunswick, A.; Hopkins, A. M. (1926). "Studies of the Nerve Impulse. The Question of Decrement". American Journal of Physiology. 76: 448–471. doi:10.1152/ajplegacy.1926.76.2.448. Derbyshire, A. J.; Rempel, B.; ——; Lambert, E. F. (1936). "The Effects of Anesthetics on Action Potentials in the Cerebral Cortex of the Cat". American Journal of Physiology. Legacy Content. 116 (3): 577–596. doi:10.1152/ajplegacy.1936.116.3.577. ——; Morison, B. R. (1939). "Cortical Response to Sensory Stimulation Under Deep Barbiturate Narcosis". Journal of Neurophysiology. 2 (2): 112–128. doi:10.1152/jn.1939.2.2.112. Renshaw, B.; ——; Morison, B. R. (1940). "Activity of Isocortex and Hippocampus: Electrical Studies with Micro-Electrodes". Journal of Neurophysiology. 3: 74–105. doi:10.1152/jn.1940.3.1.74.
=== Books === Forbes, Alexander (1924). The radio gunner. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin. LCCN 24027881. —— (1935). Offshore navigation in its simplest form, for all who sail the oceans out of sight of land. Boston: Eastern Science Supply Company. LCCN 35013318. —— (1938). Northernmost Labrador, mapped from the air. New York, N.Y.: American Geographical Society. LCCN 38015645; with contributions by O. M. Miller, N. E. Odell and Ernst C. Abbe; xix+255 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) —— (1953). Quest for a northern air route. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674282841. LCCN 52012262; xiv+138 pages {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
== References ==
== External links == McNamara, Martha J.; Sheldon, Karan, eds. (2017). "Chapter. A Strange Familiarity: Alexander Forbes and the Aesthetics of Amateur Film by Justin Wolff". Amateur Movie Making: Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915–1960. Indiana University Press.