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speaks of fine evergreen oaks, the wood of which the ship 

 carpenters gladly used for many purposes ; these were, doubtless, 

 Quercus chrysolepis or Q. agrifolia, though the timber of neither 

 is highly thought of in California nowadays. 



They proceeded to San Diego, where they rnet with the same 

 generous hospitaHty, and continued their exploration of the 

 coast as far as latitude 30°, well inside the present-day Mexican 

 territory of Lower California, thus completing a survey of 26'* 

 of latitude or about 1800 miles. 



By the 8th of January 1794 they were once more, and for the 

 third time, back at Hawai. 



As mentioned above the Journal ends unexpectedly with 

 Menzies' account of his ascent of Mauna Loa, the last entry being 

 dated i6th February 1794. 



Vancouver, sailing round Cape Horn and stopping en route 

 at Valparaiso and St Helena, reached England in September 1 795. 



He bore witness to Menzies' professional skill in his report 

 which stated that no member of the expedition had died on the 

 long voyage of four and a half years, despite the great hard- 

 ships undergone. He must have forgotten that one of his 

 crew succumbed after leaving the Cape of Good Hope, and 

 another from eating mussels in the summer of 1793, also the 

 poor carpenter's-mate, who had committed suicide on the voyage 

 from California to the Sandwich Islands in the autumn of 1792. 

 Menzies records all these melancholy happenings. 



Perhaps the tree of Menzies' discovery most remarkable in 

 our pinetums to-day, though disliked by many, is the Chilian 

 Araucaria imbricata or " Monkey Puzzle." One of the five trees 

 of this species, grown by Menzies from seed sown on board the 

 *' Discovery," survived at Kew till 1892. A table from " the 

 wood of one of them is in the possession of Mr C. D. Geddes of 

 Edinburgh, who is a great grand-nephew of Menzies and pre- 

 serves his books and papers. It is to Mr Geddes that the 

 editor of the book under review owes the reproduction of a 

 miniature of Mrs Menzies. 



Dr Newcombe has inserted many interesting illustrations, 

 and has embellished his book with six reproductions of drawings 

 of his plants by Menzies and others. As an Appendix there is 

 a complete list of the north-west American flowering plants 

 and ferns collected by Menzies, many of them introduced into 

 cultivation thirty years afterwards by David Douglas. It must 



