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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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    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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    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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    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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    Phormium tenax (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    J.R.Forst & G.Forst was described in 1776 by Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster, who were the father and son team of German botanists on the second...
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    1772–1775 by Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster") is a 1775/1776 book by Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster about the botanical discoveries...
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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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    was first described by the German naturalists Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster in 1776. Karaka grows to heights up to 15–20 m (49–66 ft) and...
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  • Georg Forster (c. 1510 – 12 November 1568) was a German editor, composer and physician. Forster was born in Amberg, in the Upper Palatinate. While a chorister...
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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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    der Wissenschaften und Litteratur, 1780–85 (ed. by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Georg Forster) Über die Pronunciation der Schöpse des alten Griechenlandes...
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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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    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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    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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    Banks had provided Latham with a water-colour drawing of the teal by Georg Forster who had accompanied James Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific Ocean...
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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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    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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  • 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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    her. Georg Forster went to Paris as representative of the Republic of Mainz. After Forster agreed to a divorce, there was a final meeting of Forster with...
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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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    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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    Melicope (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    Melicope was first formally described in 1775 by Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg Forster in their book Characteres Generum Plantarum and the first...
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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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    (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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    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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  • 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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