文档介绍：MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE, MARCH 1972, VOL. 38, PP. 545-50 Jacob Forster (1739-1806) and his connections with forsterite and palladium CLIFFORD FRONDEL Department of Geological Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 02 t38 SUMMARY. The person after whom forsterite was named has been confirmed as Jacob Forster (I739- I8O6), a mineral collector and dealer of London. The discovery of palladium and rhodium by William Hyde Wollaston and of iridium and osmium by Smithson Tennant appears to have been made on crude platinum ore from South America supplied by Forster. THE etymology of some mineral names is unknown, but in most instances these names arose in ancient or medieval times and only rarely, especially when the name is given after a person, does the origin of more recent e into question. This is the case with forsterite. In his original description of this mineral, published in 1824, Armand L6vy stated that the name was given '... in honour of the late Mr. Forster, who has so much contributed to the advancement of mineralogy by his extensive connections in that branch of science in every part of the world, and by having laid the foundation of one of the finest private collections, now in the hands of Mr. Heuland'. The later attributions of this name in standard reference works are varied. Hintze's Handbueh der Mineralogie (1889) states that the minera