PREFACE. 
The Trustees have been pleased to order the copper-plate engravings ot the plants 
collected during Captain Cook's First and Second Voyages to be printed. These plates 
were made at the charge of Sir Joseph Banks, but have never been published. The 
manuscript descriptions, which came into the possession of the Trustees together with the 
plates, are printed verbatim. Mr. Britten has carefully compared the plates and 
descriptions with the original drawings and the specimens in the Banksian Herbarium, 
and has added such information as these supply. He has also added determinations 
in accordance with the nomenclature at present adopted. 
A detailed introduction will be issued with the final part. The plates will 
be issued in systematic order under the headings Australian Plants, New Zealand 
Plants, etc. 
The story of the experiences of Banks and Solander on board of H.M.S 
Endeavour is told at length in the “Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks,” 
edited by Sir Joseph Hooker, from a manuscript in the possession of the Trustees ; 
while the narrative of what has been described as being “to the English nation the 
most momentous voyage of discovery that has ever taken place” is fully related in 
“Captain Cook’s Journal,” edited by Admiral Sir William Wharton. 
GEORGE MURRAY. 
British Museum (Narurat History), 
9th April, 1900. 
