460 
RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
at (^opeiihagen. Shortly afterwards, I76l, Frcdorik V. of Denmark 
sent him together with Niebuhr and a f<‘W others on a sc.ientific expedi 
tion to the East, more especially to •'■gypt and Arabia. He made an 
enormous collection of plants with detailed notes on everything he 
observed. He was, no doubt, the greatest botanist that ever worked 
in Arabia, especially considering the state of our botanical knowledge 
at that time. After spending some time in Egypt, the expedition 
visited Yemen. After encountering many dangers he died at Yerim, 
1763. “ Niebuhr mourned the ablest of his comrades, a man whom 
every botanist still holds in honour.” His numerous discoveries were 
afterwards published by his friend Niebuhr, the only member of the 
expedition who survived its perils. 
Flora segyptiaco-arabica sive descriptiones plantarum quas per 
Aegyptiim inferiorem et Arabiam Felicem detexit, illustravit Petrus 
Forskal. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Accedit 
tabula Arabiae Felicis geographic o-botanica Havniae, 1775. 
Niebuhr opens the volume with these appropriate words : — 
‘ ‘ Durum iter 
serpens, sitis, ardor, arenae, 
Dulcia.virtuti : gaudet patientia duris. 
Tantus amor florum !” 
Forskal, Peter. — leones rerum naturalium quas in itimere Orientali 
depingi curavit C. Niebuhr Havmae, 1776. 43 tab. 
Vahl, Martin-. — Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum tarn earum 
quas collegit P. Forskal quam aliarum descriptiones, etc. 
Havniae, 1790-94. 3 vols. 
For a criticism of ForskaU’s botanical wmrk see : Sprengel, Curtins. 
— Historia Kei Herbariae. Amstelodami (1808) vol. II, p. 421, 
Sonthelmer. — Die zusammengesetzten Heilmittel der Araber. 
Nach dem fiinften Buch des Canons von Ebn Sina. Aus dem ara- 
bischen iibersetzt. Freiburg, 1844. — This contains an appendix 
under the title : Essai de Sinonymie (sic !) botanique arabe par 
Mr. Husson. — It is an Arabic-Latin glossary helping the under- 
standing of the Egyptian names of plants or also the rectification 
of Forskal’ s arable plant names. 
See also under Schweinfurth. 
Michselis, J. Pan. — Fragen an eine Gesellschaft gelehrter Manner, 
die nach Arabien reisen. Frankfurt, 1762. 
Legre, L. — Pierre Forskal. Marseille, 1900. 
— Niebuhr, Marsten (1733-1815). — Geographer and traveller, 
^as born in the Hannoverian territory of Hadeln. In 1761 he joined 
