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MS 051 – FORSTER, J R and G

Johann Reinhold Forster, naturalist, was the scientist on James Cook’s second expedition to the Pacific on board the Resolution 1772-75. He was the father of J G A Forster.

Johann Georg Adam Forster, botanical collector and artist, was a botanical collector with James Cook’s second expedition to the Pacific 1772-75 on board the Resolution.

  1. West, Hugh “Göttingen and Weimar: the organization of knowledge and social theory in eighteenth-century Germany”. Central European History vol. XI, no. 2, June 1978

  2. Lange, Edward “Georg Forsters Theorie der Vervollkomnungsfähigkeit der Menschen und Völker”. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jahrgang 13, 1964, Gesellschafts und Sprachwissenschaftliche Reihe Heft 1

  3. “Johann Georg Adam Forster and John Reinhold Forster: a guide to their papers in the National Library of Australia”. Manuscript Section, National Library of Australia, 1966

  4. Typescript page with quote by George Forster. His name has been crossed out and replaced by the handwritten name “Ranke”.

  5. Hoare, M E “‘Cook the Discoverer’: an essay by Georg Forster, 1787”. Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 1, no. 4, November 1969

  6. “The two Forsters: a bibliographical survey”, by M E Hoare. Handwritten version

  7. “The two Forsters: a bibliographical survey”, by M E Hoare. Typescript, 39 pp.

  8. “The contribution of J R and G Forster to the literature of Cook’s second voyage 1772-1775”. Draft manuscript by M E Hoare. Typescript, with amendments; some sections handwritten.

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