FORSKAL, PETER (1736-1763) , Swedish traveller and naturalist, was born at Helsingf ors, and studied at Gottingen. On being required to leave Sweden because of his Penees sur la liberte civile (1759), he was recommended by Linnaeus to Fred erick V. of Denmark, who appointed him to Carsten Niebuhr's expedition to Arabia and Egypt in 1761. He died of the plague at Jerim, Arabia, on July i i, 1763. In 1775 appeared his Descrip tiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium, and Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica.