List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Introduction Johann Reinhold Forster and His Observations xv Nicholas Thomas ``On the Varieties of the Human Species: Forsters Comparative Ethnology xxiii Nicholas Thomas Looking at Women: Forsters Observations in the South Pacific xli Harriet Guest ``A Kind of Linnaean Being: Forster and Eighteenth-Century Natural History lv Michael Dettelbach Textual Note lxxv Advertisement for the Observations lxxvii Observations Made During A Voyage Round the World Contents 5(4) Preface 9(2) A Journal of the Voyage round the World in the Resolution 11(12) Remarks on the Earth and Lands, their Inequalities, Strata, and Constituent Parts 23(22) Remarks on Water and the Ocean 45(34) Remarks on the Atmosphere and its Changes, Meteors and Phoenomena 79(18) Remarks on the Changes of our Globe 97(16) Remarks on the Organic Bodies 113(30) Remarks on the Human Species in the South-Sea Isles 143(258) List of Subscribers 377(4) Appendixes Appendix I: Forsters Pacific Placenames 381(2) Appendix II: Forsters Polynesian Linguistics 383(18) Karl H. Rensch Notes 401(32) Bibliography 433(10) Index 443
