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Mr. Steel exhibited living examples of four land planarians 

 from Bright, Victoria, namely, Geoplana ccerulea, G. saiiguinea^ 

 G. spenceri, and G. inediolineata, var. simularis. 



Mr. Fletcher pointed out that Mr. Maiden's exhibit of the 

 Banksian plants suggested a matter of more than sentimental 

 interest to Australian naturalists which needed ventilation, 

 namely, the whereabouts of Dr. Solander's Journal, and the 

 prospects of its publication as a companion volume to Admiral 

 Wharton's "Captain Cook's Journal" (1893), and Sir Joseph 

 Hooker's "Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks " (1896). 

 It was not generally known perhapsthatSolanderkept a Journal, as 

 very few published references to it can be found. The speaker had 

 met with only two. In his preface to "Cook's Journal," Admiral 

 Wharton refers to it under the impression that Hawkesworth 

 had actually made use of it in drawing up his well-known com- 

 pilation. But neither Hawkesworth's preface, nor a comparison 

 of Hooker's " Banks " with Hawkesworth's " Cook " lends any 

 countenance to this view. On the other hand, Captain P. P. 

 King seems to be the only author who has had anything 

 definite to say about the Journal, and this apparently from 

 personal knowledge. In his remarks upon Sting-ray Bay as 

 the earlier name of Botany Bay, Captain King says — "it is 

 so called in the charts of the Endeavour's voyage, in the Hydro- 

 graphical Office at the Admiralty, as well as in Sir Joseph Banks's 

 copy of the Endeavour's journal, and in Dr. Solander's MS. 

 journal, both of which are in the possession of my friend Robert 

 Brown, Esq.""^ The subsequent fate of the Journal seems to be 

 a matter of unpublished history. If the supposition be not 

 altogether groundless that when the Endeavour was in harbour 

 and there was a prospect of botanising. Banks left the record of 

 zoological and anatomical details to Solander for the most part, 

 one can understand Sir Joseph's brief mention of certain topics, 

 such as the characteristics of the kangaroo, concerning which his 

 Journal might otherwise have been expected to be more explicit. 



* King's Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical, &c., Coasts of Aus- 

 tralia. Vol.ii. p. 9 (1827). 



