> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 859](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120990) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2836-1) LSID 2836-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213570) QID Q213570 > 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 Reinhold (1729-1798), German explorer and botanist, father of J. G. A. Forster, naturalist on Cook's second voyage. **Abbreviated name**: *J. R. Forster* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.R.Forst.*\] #### Herbarium and types See under J. G. A. Forster. – The original drawings for the *Characteres* are now at [[Collection BM|BM]]. In addition there are 131 copper engravings of a planned *Herbarium australe* at [[Collection BM|BM]] and [[Collection LE|LE]]. For further details on manuscripts and drawings see Nissen (644) and Hoare (1971). *Ref*.: Britten, J. Bot. 23: 360-368. 1885 (Icones at BM). - Herder, Acta Horti Petrop. 9: 485-510. 1885 (Icones at LE). - Anon., Hist. Coll. BMNH 149. 1904. - Merrill, The botany of Cook's voyages, Chron. bot. 14: 163-383. 1954. - Hiepko, Willdenowia 5(2): 279-294. 1961. - Hoare, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 6: 1-8. 1971. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 560; BB p. 112; BM 2: 595-596, 6: 334; Bossert p. 130; Dawson p. 338-340; Henrey 715-718; HR; HU 2: 611; Jackson p. 111, 354, 363; Langman p. 452; LS 8960; MW p. 123; Plesch p. 228-229; PR 671, 2979-2981, 4572, 6865, 9259, ed. 1: 3291; Zander ed. 10, p. 660. - Dryander, Bibl. Banks 3: 182, 202, 583, 1797; 5: 237 \[index\]. 1800. - Meusel, Lexikon teut. Schriftst. 3: 430-439. 1804. - Schneegass, Ann. herzogl. Soc. ges. Mineral. Jena 2: 255-320. 1804. - Jourdan, Dict. Sci. méd. Biogr. méd. 4: 199-208. - Engelmann, Bibl. hist. nat. 676. 1846. - Dove, Die Forsters und die Humboldts 3-16. 1881. - Embacher, Lexikon Reisen 115-116. 1882. - Kraus, Bot. Garten Universität Halle 1: 21, 64, 65. 1888. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 92, 125. 1903, 3(3): 124. 1905. - Milner, Cat. portr. Kew 45-46. 1906. - Maiden, J. Proc. roy. Soc. N.S.W. 42: 67-68. 1908. - Dallman and Wood, Trans. Liverpool bot. Soc. 1: 69. 1909. - Cockayne, Vegetation New Zealand 1-2. 1921. - Glenn, The botanical explorers of New Zealand. 174. 1950. - Steiner et Haeckel, Forster, ein Lesebuch für unsere Zeit. Weimar 1952. - Reintjes, Weltreise nach Deutschland. Düsseldorf 1953 (portr.) - Lisney, A bibliography of British Lepidoptera 199-200. 1960 (portr.) - Carolin, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 88: 108-111. 1963. - Hoare, J. Pacific Hist. 2: 215-224. 1967. - Steiner, Veröff. Inst. Slawistik 28: 245-311, 430-448. 1968 (relations with Russia). - Beddie, Bibliography of Captain James Cook, Sydney 1970, nos. 4415-4433 (and index, p. 839-840). - Hoare, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 6: 1-8. 1971. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 71, 224. 233. 1971. - Lenley et al., Cat. manuscr. coll. New York Bot. Gard. 171. 1973. - 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 son Johann Georg Adam (1754-1794), q.v.; *Forsteronia* G. F. W. Meyer (1818) is dedicated to Thomas Furley Forster (1761-1825), q.v. ### Publications ##### n.1825. Flora Americae septentrionalis **Title** *Flora Americae septentrionalis*; or a catalogue of the plants of North America. Containing an enumeration of the known herbs, shrubs, and trees, many of which are but lately discovered; together with their English names, the places where they grow, their different uses, and the authors who have described and figured them. London (B. White, T. Davies) 1771. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Amer. sept.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1771, before Oct (Monthly Rev. 45: 327; NZgS 24 Dec 1772 sic), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-51, \[1\]. *Copies*: HU, MO, US. – Also printed with his translation of the Travels of Bossu 2: 17-67 (fide Dryander). *Ref*.: BM 2: 595; HU 619; Jackson p. 354; PR 2979. ##### n.1826. Characteres generum plantarum **Title** *Characteres generum plantarum*, quas in itinere ad insulas maris australis, collegerunt, descripserunt, delinearunt, annis mdcclxxii-mdcclxxv. Joannes Reinoldus Forster... et Georgius Forster, London s.d. \[1775\] Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Char. gen. pl.* **Notes** *Co-author*: Johann Georg Adam Forster (1754-1794). *Ed. 1*: *The first* edition came out on or about 29 November, 1775. Only two copies of this folio edition are now known to exist, in the King's Library at London (BM-Bloomsbury) and in LINN. There are viii and 75 pages and *78 plates* (nos. 1-75, 38a, 38b, 51a) (*n.v.*) \[*Second*\]*edition*: London (B. White, T. Cadell, & P. Elmsley) 1 Mar 1776, Qu., p. \[i\]-x, \[2 p. ind.\], \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-150; \[xi-xii, ind.\], \[1, err.\], *pl. 1-75, 38a*, *38b*, *51a*. The most widely distributed edition. *Copies*: BR, G, HU, M, MO, U, NY, Ewan. \[*Third*\]*edition*: London (B. White, T. Cadell, & P. Elmsley) 1776, 1 Mar or later, folio, (each folio page bears the text of two quarto ones) p. \[i\]-vii, \[viii\], \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-72, \[73-76\]. \[1, err.\], *pl. 1-75, 38a, 38b, 51a. Copy*: L. Linnaeus received his copy on 6 Apr 1776 (letter at G): this was *the first* folio edition of 1775. – The London Chronicle of 1 Mar 1776 states that the book (second edition) was published on that day; NZgS of 29 Apr 1776 states that publication took place in February. The important date, however, is 29 Nov 1775, presumably the date on which the book was presented to the King ("within four months after \[Forster's\] return"). Publication may be assumed to have taken place late Nov or early Dec 1775 (see St. John 1971). *German* ed.: "Johann Reinhold Forster's... und Georg Forster's, Beschreibungen der Gattungen von Pflanzen, auf einer Reise nach den Inseln der Süd-See gesammelt, beschrieben und abgezeichnet, während den Jahren 1772 bis 1775. Aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt, und von 75 bis auf 17 Kupferplatten engeschränkt, durch Johann Simon Kerner. Stuttgart (Christoph Gottfried Mäntler) 1779. Oct. (*Beschr. Gatt. Pfl.*)*Publ*.: Nov-Dec 1779 (preface 10 Nov 1779), p. \[i-xxii\], \[1\]-160 \[161-175\], *pl. 1-18. Copy*: Ewan. *Ref*.: BM 2: 595; Henrey 716-718; Jackson p. 111; NI 644, 645; PR 2981; PR (ed. 1): 3287-3290; IDC 1273. - G. Forster, A voyage around the world in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop Resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4 and 5. London 1777, 2 vols. Qu. (Reise um die Welt, Berlin 1778). - Rickett, NAF 28B(2): 330. 1945. - Edgar, Preface to "Characteres generum plantarum" \[translation\], New Zealand J. - Bot. 7(4): 311-315. 1969. - St. John, Le naturaliste canadien 88: 361-581. 1971 (important). - Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males. Bull. 26: 2017. 1972. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Bot. 1: 220-221. 1975 (German ed.) ##### n.1827. Enchiridion historiae naturali **Title** *Enchiridion historiae naturali* inserviens, quo termini et delineationes ad avium, piscium, insectorum et plantarum adumbrationes intelligendas et concinnandas, secundum methodum systematis linnaeani continentur. Halle (Hemmerde et Schwetschke) 1788. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Ench. hist. nat.* **Notes** *Publ*.: prob. Sep 1788 (p. \[x\]: 15 Feb 1788; ALZ 15 Oct 1788; BH), p. \[i-xvi\], \[1\]-224. *Copy*: UC.