Forster, Johann Reinhold, a German naturalist and traveller, born in Prussia; accompanied Captain Cook as a naturalist on his second expedition to the South Seas, and in connection with which he wrote a volume of observations; died professor of Natural History and Mineralogy at Halle (1729‒1798).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Forster, Johann George Adam * Forster, John