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but the men did not remain long enough to permit exploration at 
any considerable distance from the shore. In November 1778 
Captain Cook returned and spent ten weeks in cruising about 
Maui and Hawaii, making frequent landings, hence it is probable 
that the greater portion of Nelson’s collection is from these 
islands. 
At Kew there are also preserved specimens from the collec- 
tions of Archibald Menzies, surgeon and _ naturalist upon Van- 
couver’s voyage of 1790-95. Some of his specimens have reached 
the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden by exchange 
with Kew. Vancouver's policy in dealing with the natives was 
so just that he secured their confidence and his men were able 
to explore freely. He spent about four months upon the islands. 
In 1816-17 Albert Chamisso, while on the voyage of the 
Romanzoff, made collections of plants in Oahu and published his 
notes and descriptions of new species in Linnaea. His collections 
are at Berlin, in the herbarium of the Royal Botanical Gardens. 
In 1819 Charles Gaudichaud, botanist of the French Corvette 
"'Uranie under Captain Freycinet made collections upon the 
islands, and published his account of plants in Botanique du 
Voyage d’Uranie, in 1830 (1826 according to the title page). He 
returned to the Hawaiian Islands in 1826 as botanist on the Bonite, 
but the only record of his collections consists of a few plates with 
no adequate descriptions or notes as to localities where the plants 
were found, 
James Macrae, afterward superintendent of the Ceylon Botan- 
ical Gardens, made collections in the Pacific Islands and in South 
America between the years 1824 and 1826. His collections have 
= variously distributed by exchange and appear in herbaria 
reat Britain, the Continent, and America. 
Sd George T. Lay and Alexander Collie, the collectors 
ean: Beechey on the voyage of the Blosssom, secured the 
of the iy rom which Hooker and Arnott made their report 
‘ raat of Captain Beechey’s Voyage, 1830-41. 
. 1°33 David Douglas, sent out by the London Horticultural 
ety, made valuable collections of Hawaiian ferns, which are 
Otay in the herbaria of Hooker, Bentham, and Lindley. 
intended wai his death in Hawaii by falling into a pit which was 
© entrap animals. 
