Subject: Re: Forster (was Steller's)
Date: Nov 25 07:34:47 1998
From: "Spitler/Cannon" - spitler at wkpowerlink.com


Hi All
Quoting from The Birdwatcher's Companion:
Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-98. A talented German who gave up the church
for natural history. He worked as a teacher, natural historian, and
translator in England and ended up as a professor of mineralogy at the
University of Halle in Germany. The central event in his life was a
disastrous sailing as a naturalist on Cook's second voyage around the world.
Forster was the first to attempt to catalogue the American avifauna (as well
as the rest of its animal life) in A Catalogue of the Animals of NA (1771);
he listed 302 species of birds. The Forster's Tern was named for him by
Thomas Nuttall.

Cheers
Gail Spitler
Johnsons Landing, BC
spitler at wkpowerlink.com