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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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    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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    seven surviving children; the oldest child was George Forster, also known as Georg. In 1765, Forster was commissioned by the Russian government to inspect...
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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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  • 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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    Kava (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    Kava or kava kava (Piper methysticum: Latin 'pepper' and Latinized Greek 'intoxicating') is a plant in the pepper family, native to the Pacific Islands...
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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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    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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    Mānuka (category Taxa named by Georg Forster)
    Mānuka (Māori pronunciation: [maːnʉka], Leptospermum scoparium), also known as mānuka myrtle, New Zealand teatree, broom tea-tree, or just tea tree, is...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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