472 CATALOGUK OK AUTHORS. 



FoRSK. — FoRSKAHL, (Peter) a Swedish naturalist, born 1734, a pu- 

 pil of Linnaeus, and the companion of Niebuhr in his travels to the 

 East, died during the journey in 1763. 



" Descriptiones Animalium," &c., quie iu Itiaeie Orientali observavit," 4to. 

 Copenhagen, 1775. 



" Icones Rerum Naturaliuin quas in Itinere Orientali depingi curavit," 410, 

 Copenhagen, 1776. 



Posthumous works, and extremely precious on account of the new species de- 

 scribed in them, although the nomenclature is incorrect. 

 FoRTis (J. B. or Alberto) an Italian naturalist, born at Venice 

 1740, died a bookseller at Bologna, 1803. I quote his 



" Memoircs pour servir i\ I'Histoire Naturelle et priiicipalement ii I'Oricto- 

 graphie de I'ltalie," 2 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1802. 

 FoRST. — FoRSTKR (John Reinhold), born at Dirchaw in Polish 

 Prussia 1729, naturalist in the English service for the second voyage 

 of Cook, and subsequently Professor at Halle. He died in 1798. 



" Zoologise Indica; Rarioris Spicilegium," 4to. London, 1790. 

 " Enchiridion Historia; Naturali inserviens," 8vo. Halle, 1788. 

 I also quote him for the articles inserted by Bloch in his posthumous System 

 of Fishes. 

 FouRCROV (Antoinc Francois de), the celebrated Professor of 

 Chemistry, Counsellor of State, and member of the Academic des 

 Sciences;' born 1755, died 1809. The only work we have had occa- 

 sion to quote is his 



" Entomologia Parisiensis," 2 vols. 8vo, Paris, 1785, a small work of his 

 youth, and a mere abridgment of that of Geoflfroy. 



Fred. Cuv. See Cuv. 



Freminv. — Fremnville (Baron de), an officer of the French 

 navy : an able naturalist. 



Aiithorof various articles in the Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Natucclle. 



Fries (B. F.) 



" Monographia Tanyporum Sueciae." Lundiae, 1823. 



Fr. — Frisch (J. L.) Rector of the Gymnasium of Berlin, born 

 1666, died 1743. 



" A Representation of certain German and Foreign Birds" (in German), 

 2 vols, folio, Berlin, 1739 — 1763, containing two hundred and fifty-five ex- 

 tremely exact but not fine plates. 



" Beschreibung von lusecten in Teuschland," or a Description of the Insects 

 in Germany, 1 vol. 4to. Berlin, 1730. 



Froel. — Froelich (J. A), a German naturalist and physician of 

 Elwangen. 



Author of two Memoirs on the Intestinal Worms in the Naturforscher. 



G.ERT. — Gartner (Joseph), a celebrated botanist of Wirtemberg, 

 born 1732, died 1791. 



Author of the Carpologia, and also Zoological Observations inserted in the 

 Philosophical Transactions, and in the Miscellanea Zoologica of Pallas. 

 Gaillardot, a physician at Luneville, and an able naturalist. 



Author of Memoirs on Fossils published in the Annales des Sciences Natu- 

 relles, &c. 

 Garden (Alexander), a Scotchman, physician at Charleston, South 

 Carolina, born 1730, died 1771- 



He transmitted various observations to Linnaeus. 



Gaza (Theodore de), a Greek Avho sought an asylum in Italy in the 



