Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798), German/Scottish naturalist and writer, began his career as a pastor near Danzig. After a spell in Russia, he moved to England in 1766, teaching languages and natural history for a short time before producing A Catalogue of British Insects (1770). This and other publications brought him to the notice of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, and he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1772. That year, aged forty-two, he was appointed naturalist on Cook's second voyage of discovery, on the Resolution; his son, Georg(e), accompanied him.
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