> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 857](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120988) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2835-1) LSID 2835-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58062) QID Q58062 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Forster, Johann Georg (b. George) Adam (Suppl.)|second entry]] for Forsters ### Author Forster, Johann Georg Adam (1754-1794), German explorer and botanist, son of J. R. Forster whom he accompanied to England, Russia and on Cook's second voyage. **Abbreviated name**: *G. Forster* \[standard form in IPNI: *G.Forst.*\] #### Herbarium and types It is not possible to state where the original Forster herbarium (father and son) is preserved: the Forsters several times gave away, offered or sold parts of their collections. One of the most important parts containing many plants from Cook's second voyage was acquired by Banks and is now at [[Collection BM|BM]]. Lambert also acquired what was called the Georg Forster herbarium as well as another set of Forster plants with the Pallas herbarium; at the sale these collections were also acquired by BM. Other large sets are at [[Collection LIV|LIV]] and [[Collection W|W]], and (a very considerable one) at [[Collection UPS|UPS]] in the Thunberg herbarium. Other sets are at [[Collection B|B]] (many specimens are still in the Willdenow herbarium; most of these came to Willdenow via Sprengel, who in turn had received them from Forster Sr.; others stem from Georg Forster's estate), [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection MW|MW]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PH|PH]], and [[Collection W|W]]. – A number of unpublished drawings and engravings made by Forster during Cook's second voyage is at [[Collection BM|BM]]. Letters by Forster to Banks are at the National Library of Australia, Canberra; other letters at the Mitchell Library, Sydney. *Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 358, 2: 204. - Britten, J. Bot. 23: 360-368. 1885. - Urban, Gesch. Berlin-Dahlem 346, 414. 1916. - Stansfield, Handbook and guide to the herbarium collections in the public museums Liverpool 50-51. 1935. - Merrill, The botany of Cook's voyages, Chron. bot. 14: 163-384. 1954 (herb.: 208-211). - Meyer, D. E., Willdenowia 1: 778-780. 1957 (specimens in Willdenow herb.) - Mitrofanova, An analysis of the herbarium of Johann & Georg Forster, preserved in Moscow State University, Bot. Zhurn. 44: 135-137. 1959 (in Russian). - Carolin, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 88: 108-111. 1963. - Hiepko, Willdenowia 5(2): 279-294. 1969. - Miller, Taxon 19: 523. 1970. - Apfelbaum, Not. nat. Philadelphia 437: 1-4. 1971. #### Bibliography and biography AG2(1); Barnhart 1: 560; BBp. 112; BM2: 595; 6: 334; Bossert p. 130; Dawson p. 335-338; DNB 20: 15; Henrey 3: 43; HR; Jackson p. 111, 434; PR 2974-2978, 2981; Zander ed. 10, p. 659. - Boehmer, Bibl. hist. nat. 3(1): 362-363. 1795. - Forster, Ann. d. Philosophic 1795(2): 9-15. 1795(16): 121-126. 1795. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist. nat. Banks 5: 237. 1800. - Meusel, Lexikon teut. Schriftst. 3: 429-430. 1804. - Jourdan, Dict. Sci. méd. Biogr. méd. 4: 194-199. 1821. - Huber, Johann Georg Forster's Briefwechsel, 2 vols. Leipzig 1829. - Anon., Blätt. lit. Unterhalt. 1830:9-11, 13-15, 185-187, 189-190, 193-195, 301-303, 305, 309-311 (correspondence). - Moleschott, Georg Forster, der Naturforscher des Volks. Frankfurt 1854, viii, 295 p. (portr.); ed. 2. Berlin 1862. - Hettner, Georg Forster's Briefwechsel mit Samuel Thomas Sömmering. Braunschweig 1877. - Dove, A., Die Forsters und die Humboldts 3-16. 1881. - Lindemann, Bull. Soc. Natur. Mosc. 59(1): 294. 1884. - Merrill, Chronica bot. 14: 163-383. 1904 (The botany of Cook's voyages). - Milner, Cat. portr. Kew 45. 1906. - Maiden, J. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. 42: 68-69. 1908 (1909). - Cockayne, Vegetation New Zealand 1-2. 1921. - Seidel, Ina, Das Labyrinth. Berlin 1922 (reissued 1930, English translation by Oakley Williams 1932). - Langewiesche, Georg Forster, Ebenhausen 1923. - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 220. 1936. - Merrill, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 30(1): 122-123. 1947. - Glenn, The botanical explorers of New Zealand 174. 1950. - Steiner and Häckel, Forster, ein Lesebuch für unsere Zeit. Weimar 1952. - Kersten, Der Weltumsegler J. G. A. Forster 1754-1794. Bern 1957. - Meyer, Willdenowia 1(5): 778-780. 1957. - Steiner, Georg Forster, Philosophische Schriften. Berlin 1958. - Steiner, Weimarer Beiträge 5: 527-561. 1959 (G. Forster in England). - Karavaev, Akad. Nauk. Inst. Istorii Estest. Trudy 36(8): 176-201. 1961 (lists of types). - Steiner, Veröff. Institut Slawistik 28: 245-311, 430-450. 1965. (relations of Forsters with Russia). - Uhlig, L., Georg Forster, Einheit und Mannigfaltigkeit in seiner geistigen Welt. Tübingen 1965 (very detailed bibliography). - Kahn, Georg Forsters Werke, Sämtliche Schriften, Tagebücher, Briefe vol. 1, Berlin 1968. - Beddie, Bibliography of Captain James Cook. Sydney 737-741, 839. 1970 (full bibliography of Forster's own writings and those on him with respect to Cook's second voyage). - Apfelbaum, Notul. Nat. 437: 1-4. 1971. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 153-221, 233. 1971. - Saine, T. P., Georg Forster, New York (Twayne) 1972, 182 p. - Stafleu, *in* Daniels and Stafleu, Taxon 21(2/3): 260. 1972. - Smit, History of the life sciences 900, 928. 1974. #### Eponymy *Foersteria* \[sic\] Scopoli (1777); *Forstera* Linnaeus fil. (1780). *Note*: Both names are also dedicated to his father Johann Reinhold (1729-1798), q.v.; *Forsteronia* G. F. W. Meyer (1818) is dedicated to Thomas Furley Forster (1761-1825), q.v. ### Publications ##### n.1821. de plantis esculentis insularum oceani australis **Title** Dissertatio inauguralis botanico-medica *de plantis esculentis insularum oceani australis*. Quam ex decreto ordinis gratiosi speciminis gratia pro adipiscendis summis in medicina honoribus privilegiis et immunitatibus publicavit auctor Georgius Forster... Halle (Typis Franckianis) 1786. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Diss. pl. esc.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1786, prob. Aug-Sep (GGA 25 Sep 1786), p. \[1\]-80. This thesis is the original issue. For the trade issue see below. *Copies*: Ewan, MO, UC. *Ref*.: PR 2976; IDC 2298. - Merrill, Pacific Science 8(1): 35-37. 1954. ##### n.1822. De plantis esculentis insularum oceani australis commentatio botanica **Title** *De plantis esculentis insularum oceani australis commentatio botanica*. Berlin (Haude et Spener) 1786. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. esc.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1786, probably Aug-Sep (GGA 25 Sep 1786), p. \[1\]-80. *Copy*: NY. – The Halle edition, a thesis (Dissertatio inauguralis botanico-medica de plantis...), was published somewhat earlier than the Berlin edition (see above). This issue differs from the original in two respects: the title-page was reset (title: *De plantis esculentis*...) and a cancellans was issued for sheet B2 from which the note on p. 19 was omitted. *Ref*.: BM 2: 5955 IDC 2298; PR 2976. - Merrill, Pacific Science 8(1): 35-37. 1954. ##### n.1823. Florulae insularum australium prodromus **Title** *Florulae insularum australium prodromus*. Goettingen (Joann. Christian Dieterich) 1786. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. ins. austr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct-Nov 1786, p. \[1\]-8, \[1\]-103. Published after *De plantis esculentis* in which some of the species from the *Prodromus* are more amply described (p. 8: 30 Jun 1786; GGA 13 Nov 1786 "eben erhalten"). The M.S.V. in many references stands for Murray, Syst. veg. ed. 14. 1786. *Copies*: MO, NY, UC. *Ref*.: BM 2: 595; IDC 2298, 7698; PR 2975; RS p. 83. - Merrill, Pacific Science 8(1): 35. 1954. - Rickett, NAF ser. 2. 2: 157. 1955. ##### n.1824. Fasciculus plantarum magellanicarum **Title** *Fasciculus plantarum magellanicarum*. \[Göttingen 1778\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Fasc. pl. magell.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1787 after 18 Sep, date of presentation (see p. 13 of publ. in Comm.), p. \[1\]-64, *pl. 1-8. Copy*: M. – Reprinted from Comm. Soc. Goett. 9: 13-74, *pl. 1-8.*1787(*Copy*: MO). – The MO copy has a t.p. on \[1\]: "Georgii Forster, M.D. cet. *De plantis magellanicis et atlanticis commentationes*." This is apparently the special t.p. for the independently paged reprint. The full heading of the journal article (on p. 13) is "*Fasciculus plantarum magellanicarum* oblatus societati in ipso consessu sollennium Academiae Georgiae augustae semisaecularim d. xviii Sept mdcclxxxvii." This is followed on p. 46 by "Plantae atlanticae ex insulis Madeira, St. Jacobi, Adcensionis, St. Helena et Fayal reportatae." *Ref*.: PR 2977.