PVE ACK, 
JOHANN REINHOLD FORSTER, the well-known Natu- 
ralist, was born at Dirschau in Prussia in 1729, and 
came to England along with his son George Forster, 
in order to accompany the circumnavigator Cook on 
his second voyage. 
During his residence in England, before the departure 
of Cook’s Expedition (which took place on the gth of April, 
1772), Forster translated and published an English edition 
of Kalm’s “Travels into North America,” in the prefaces 
to which (Vol. i. p. xv. and Vol. iii. p. vii.) will be found 
allusions to a projected ‘American Fauna and Flora.” 
But the present list, as acknowledged by the author himself 
in his preface, was planned and indeed commenced by 
Pennant, who in his “Literary Life” (p. 14) writes, “In 
“this year (1771) doctor Forster published a catalogue 
“of the animals of North America. I had begun the 
“work by a list of the quadrupeds, birds and _ fishes. 
“Doctor Forster added all the rest; and afterwards, in 
‘“‘a new edition, favored the world with a most comprehen- 
“sive flora of that vast country, with a catalogue of 
“insects, and the directions for preserving natural curiosities. 
“My part in this work is of so little merit, that it need not 
“be boasted of. I only lay claim to my proper right.” 
