Receipt from John Reinhold Forster to Mr Ingram, Fellow of All Soul's College, Oxford, for the sum of 15 shillings for the subscription for one copy of Dr Forster's Observations, 28 April 1778

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Johann Reinhold Forster, author and naturalist, was born on 22 October 1729 at Dirschau (Tschew), Polish Prussia. His writings on natural history made him known in scientific circles, where he won the acquaintanceship of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander and was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1772. When Banks refused to sail on James Cook's second expedition, he was appointed the position of scientist and took along his son Georg Forster as his assistant. Because of J. R. Forster's quarrel with the Admiralty, A Voyage Round the World in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop Resolution … (1777) had to be written by Georg Foster.

Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/ (accessed August 31, 2009)

This receipt is for the subscription to Dr Forster's, Observations made during a voyage round the world : on physical geography, natural history, and ethic philosophy, published in 1778

Transferred from the Manuscripts Collection Af 34/3, Sept. 2009

John Reinhold Forster