AND NOMENCLATORS. XXI 



Hiibner's Europ. Schmett." (Leipsic, 1834 et seq.)> a 

 most valuable work. 



FISCHER, Dr. G., von Waldheim, born at Leipsic in 1770; in 

 1797 he accompanied Humboldt to Vienna, intending 

 to practise medicine, but devoted himself to Natural 

 History, particularly to that of the Fishes of the Da- 

 nube. After taking a scientific journey through Ger- 

 many and Switzerland, he removed to Paris, and as- 

 sisted Cuvier in the production of the " Ossemens Fos- 

 siles." In 1804 Fischer was appointed Professor and 

 Director of the Museum at Moscow, and continued to 

 fill this office until his death in 1853. He was the 

 founder of the Imperial Society of Naturalists at Moscow, 

 a member of more than eighty learned and scientific 

 bodies, and a knight of several Russian Orders. The 

 titles of his principal works are " Bibliographia Palseon- 

 tologica Animalium Systematica" (Moscow, 1810), 

 " Adversaria Zoologica " (1819), " Genera Ins. Coleop. 

 syst. exposita et analysi iconographica instructa" (1821), 

 " Oryctographie du Gouvernement deMoscou" (1830), 

 and " Entomographia Imperii Russici" (4 vols., 1820- 

 43), besides about 150 miscellaneous papers chiefly pub- 

 lished in the " Moscow Transactions." 



FORSTER, Johann Reinhold, born in 1729, the son of the 

 burgomaster of Dirschau, in Polish Prussia, descended 

 front an English family which had left this country in the 

 time of Charles I. He studied at the Universities of 

 Berlin and Halle, and, after passing some time in Russia, 

 came to England in 1766, and accepted a situation as 

 Teacher of German, French, and Natural History, in a 

 Dissenters' College at Warrington. During his resi- 

 dence there, he published an " Introduction to Mine- 

 ralogy" (1768), "A Catalogue of English Insects" 

 (1770), and "Novae Species Insectorum" (1771). In 

 1772 he accompanied Capt. Cook on his second voyage, 

 as Naturalist to the expedition, and on his return, three 

 years later, was made D.C.L. of Oxford, and F.R.S. In 

 1778 appeared his " Observations made during a Voyage 

 round the World;" but some quarrel having arisen 

 between him and the government about the publication 

 of works having reference to his voyage, he readily ac- 

 cepted the offer of the Professorship of Natural History 

 at Halle: thence he gave to the world his "Zoologia 

 Indica" (1781), "Enchiridion Historiae Naturali inser- 

 viens" (1788), with many other works; and there he 

 continued to reside until his death in 1798. Forster is 



