XVili HISTORY OF 
As in the preceding work, the descriptions are short and unsatisfactory, 
and usually quite insufficient for the proper identification of the species. 
In the same year he also issued a little tract entitled “De Plantis 
Esculentis Insularum Oceani Australis Commentatio Botanica,” 
which includes full descriptions and much curious information respect- 
ing the esculent plants, fifty-four in number, observed during the 
voyage, fourteen of which were from New Zealand. These three 
publications, together with a short essay, “De Plantis Magellanicis. 
et Atlanticis,” which contains no reference to New Zealand, appear 
to be the whole of the matter written by the Forsters respecting the 
botany of Cook’s second voyage. 
Cook’s third and last voyage can be passed over with a few words. 
He left England on the 12th July, 1776, and after visiting the Cape of 
Good Hope, Kerguelen’s Island, and Tasmania, reached his favourite 
anchorage in Queen Charlotte Sound on the 12th February, 1777, this. 
being his fifth visit to the locality. His stay was brief, and on the 25th 
February he finally left New Zealand. Cook’s surgeon, Mr. W. Ander- 
son, had some knowledge of natural history, and his description of 
Queen Charlotte Sound, printed in Hawkesworth’s “Cook’s Third 
Voyage ” (Vol. i., p. 145), contams an excellent account of the vegeta- 
tion. His collections, however, were small and unimportant. 
In 1791, Captain Vancouver, in command of the “ Discovery,” 
accompanied by Captain Broughton in the “‘ Chatham,” visited Dusky 
Sound, making a stay of nearly three weeks. The surgeon to the 
expedition, Archibald Menzies, devoted himself to the higher erypto- 
gams, and made a large collection of ferns, mosses, and Hepatice. 
Many of his specimens were figured by Sir W. J. Hooker in the “ Musci 
Exotici” or “ Icones Filicum,” together with a few flowermg-plants in 
the “Icones Plantarum.” A set of his collections is in the British 
Museum Herbarium, and another at Kew. 
The first of the French voyages of discovery to touch at New 
Zealand was that of Captain De Surville, in the “ Saint Jean Baptiste.” 
De Surville arrived off Doubtless Bay in December, 1769, only three 
days after Cook had passed the same locality on his way to the North 
Cape. He remained three weeks at anchor in Mongonui Harbour, 
and was most hospitably treated by the Maoris, a hospitality which 
he returned by burning one of their villages and destroying their 
canoes, apparently because he suspected them of stealing a boat which 
had accidentally got adrift. I cannot learn that any natural-history 
collections were made during this visit. 
In 1772 an expedition consisting of two vessels, the “‘ Mascarin ” 
and the ‘‘ Marquis de Castries,” under the command of Marion du 
Fresne and Duclesmeur, arrived off Cape Egmont. Proceeding north- 
wards, and failing to find a harbour, the ships rounded the North Cape, 
and eventually anchored in the Bay of Islands, where a stay of over 
two months was made. Marion and his people were welcomed with. 
