ASO PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
Christian Friis Rottbéll, who died in 1797, Pro- 
fessor of Botany at Copenhagen, has described a — 
great many foreign plants. His chief merit 1s the | 
description of several exotic species of gramina *. 
Fusée Aublet, a Frenchman, was an apothecary, 
and went with a great deal of botanical knowledge to 
Guyana in America. After having made there a 
great many discoveries in botany, he went to the Isle 
of France or Mauritius, and returned to France, 
where he died some years ago f. 
Johann Reinhold Forster, late Professor of Halle, 
and his son George Forster, private counsellor and 
librarian at Maynz, made a voyage round the world 
with Captain Cook. Both philosophers have com- 
municated to the world an account of the plants 
which they discovered during their voyage {. 
* Christiani Frius Rottbollii Descriptiones et icones Planta- 
rum. Hafniae 1773. fol. with 21 plates. Animproved edition 
appeared in 1786. 
+ Fusée Aublet Histoire des Plantes de la Gujane Francoise. 
Tom. I.—IV. Lond. et Paris. 1775. ato. with 392 plates. 
{ Joh. Reinh. Forsteri Characteres Generum Plantarum, 
quas in itinere ad insulas maris australis collegit. Lond. 1776. 
Ato. with 7§ plates. 
Georg. Forsteri Plantae esculentaeinsularum oceani australis. 
Halae, 1786. 8vo. 
Ejusc. Florulae insularnm australium prodromus. Goettingae. 
x786. 8vo. 
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