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    Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfɔʁstɐ], 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German geographer...
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    where he was accompanied by his son Georg Forster. These expeditions promoted the career of Johann Reinhold Forster and the findings became the bedrock...
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    the Georg Forster Station, was launched in Antarctica. In 1987, the station, which was run by the GDR, was named after the German naturalist Georg Forster...
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    Commanded by Capt. James Cook, During the Years 1772, 3, 4, and 5) is Georg Forster's report on the second voyage of the British explorer James Cook. During...
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    the Age of Goethe and Romanticism, and he was one of the editors of Georg Forster's works. Kahn held academic positions in German studies at the University...
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    Dichondra repens (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    formally described in 1775 by German naturalists Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster in Characteres generum plantarum, and the lectotype collected...
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    Artocarpus (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    karpos ("fruit"). This name was coined by Johann Reinhold Forster and J. Georg Adam Forster, a father-and-son team of botanists aboard HMS Resolution...
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    Leptospermum (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    published in 1776 by the German botanists Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Johann Georg Adam Forster, but an unambiguous definition of individual species...
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    Stockholm: Aktiebolaget Ljus. Gordon, Joseph Stuart (1975). Reinhold and Georg Forster in England, 1766–1780 (PhD thesis). Ann Arbor: Duke University. OCLC 732713365...
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    Decaspermum fruticosum (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    Decaspermum fruticosum is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It is a tree or shrub native to the Samoan Islands, Society Islands...
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  • journal editor, wife of Georg Forster Therese Forster (1786–1862), German educator, daughter of Georg and Therese Forster Thomas Forster (1683–1738), Northumbrian...
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    Kava (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    Kava or kava kava (Piper methysticum: Latin 'pepper' and Latinized Greek 'intoxicating') is a crop of the Pacific Islands. The name kava is from Tongan...
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  • Gahnia procera (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    Gahnia procera is a tussock-forming perennial in the family Cyperaceae, that is native to parts of New Zealand. "Gahnia procera J.R.Forst. & G.Forst"....
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    Glaucus atlanticus (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    placed in a single row (uniseriate) and may be up to 84 inches total (Forster, 1777). G. atlanticus is usually found in tropical/subtropical areas, floating...
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    Breynia (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    Breynia is a genus in the flowering plant family Phyllanthaceae, first described in 1776. It is native to Southeast Asia, China, Réunion, the Indian Subcontinent...
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    Leptospermum scoparium (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    Leptospermum scoparium, commonly called mānuka, (Māori pronunciation: [maːnʉka]) mānuka myrtle, New Zealand teatree, broom tea-tree, or just tea tree,...
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  • Marie Therese Forster may refer to: Marie Therese Forster (1764–1829), wife of Georg Forster, known as Therese Forster or under her second married name...
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  • Georg Forster (c. 1510 – 12 November 1568) was a German editor, composer and physician. Forster was born at Amberg, in the Upper Palatinate. While a chorister...
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    (née Forster; 21 November 1789 – 3 February 1839) was a German papercutting artist. She was born in Mainz, the daughter of world traveller Georg Forster and...
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    African wildcat (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    grasslands. Felis lybica was the scientific name proposed in 1780 by Georg Forster who based his description on a specimen from Gafsa on the Barbary Coast...
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    itself. The species name “forsteriana" is after Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster, father and son, who accompanied Captain Cook as naturalists on...
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    after lengthy arguments between Forster and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Georg went ahead and published his own...
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    1839/40, Gervinus approached Therese Forster, the daughter of German explorer, writer and revolutionary Georg Forster, and suggested an edition of her father's...
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    Reinhold Forster. Johann Forster and his son Georg Forster had accompanied James Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific Ocean. The son Georg made a water-colour...
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    Banks had provided Latham with a water-colour drawing of the duck by Georg Forster who had accompanied James Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific Ocean...
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  • Tahiti for the second time, he was accompanied by Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster, two German scientists. "What a morning—impossible to be described...
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  • Duchy of Mantua was confiscated by the emperor as a result. 1793 - Georg Forster, for collaboration with the French Republic. The imperial ban imposed...
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  • establishment. He has sometimes been confused with the German naturalist Georg Forster. He is notable for being the first Briton to have journeyed from India...
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    in scientific literature in 1786, published by the German botanist Georg Forster, from a specimen collected from Tanna Island. The mosaic fig is used...
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  • George Forster may refer to: Georg Forster (1754–1794), German scientist and revolutionary; travelled with James Cook George Forster (MP) Georg Forster (composer)...
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