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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[FORSTER 
October 12, 1765. He became a Fellow of the Linnean 
Society in 1800, Treasurer, 1816, Vice-President, 1828, and 
contributed to Sowerby’s English Botany and to the Magazine 
of Zoology and Botany , etc. De Candolle named the plant 
Luzula forsteri in honour of him. He died of cholera at 
Woodford, February 23, 1849, after inspecting the Refuge 
for the Destitute founded by him in Hackney Road, and was 
buried at Walthamstow. His herbarium was purchased by 
Robert Brown and presented to the British Museum. 
For observations on his Catalogue , see under T. Forster, 
who used it as a basis for his Synoptical Catalogue. From 
the edition of E. Forster’s Catalogue printed with the 1817 
edition of the Swallows , we learn that he possessed a collection 
of birds at Clapton, the catalogue having an asterisk affixed 
to those species in his collection. 
1817. Catalogus Avium | in | Insulis Britannicis | Habitantium. | — | 
Cura et studio | Edwardi Forsteri, jun. | London ; | in sedibus 
Valpianis, | Tooke’s Court, Chancery Lane. | 1817. 
Collation— 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 48, inch separate title-page. 
Idem. Another issue in T. Forster’s Observations on the 
Swallows, 6th edit. 1817 (q.v.), without a title-page, and paged 
from 65-97. 
This issue has the vernacular names run into one word, i.e. 
Blackwigeon, which is not the case in the separate is^ue above. 
Forster (Thomas Furley). See Forster (T. I. M.) 
Forster (Thomas Ignatius Maria), 1789-1860 
Thomas Forster, M.D., eminent both as a naturalist and 
an astronomer, was the son of Thomas Furley Forster (1761- 
1826) of Walthamstow, and was born in London, November 9, 
1789. He was brought up at Walthamstow, but his father 
being a disciple of Rousseau, his early education was neglected. 
Later he was allowed to enter Corpus Christi College, Cam- 
bridge, and took his M.B. degree there in 1819. He had 
become a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1811. He married 
in 1817 and settled at first in Tunbridge Wells, later moving 
to Hartwell in Sussex, and in 1 827 to Boreham, near Chelms- 
