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scientific gentlemen may be as well carried on in company 
as if separated, it is therefore strongly recommended to 
them to keep together as much as possible for their mutual 
support and safety. Should they however think proper to 
separate in their excursions, it is to be understood that the 
two or three marines, who will always be appointed to ac- 
company them, are to remain with the gentleman having 
the direction on leaving the vessel; and, in order to avoid 
the possibility of any dispute for precedence in this last 
respect, the succession in which the Lords of the Admiralty 
have given me the names of the scientific gentlemen, is to 
be considered as the established rule, viz. Mr. Professor 
Smith, Mr. Tudor, Mr. Cranch; and when it shall be thought 
necessary to send a midshipman or other petty officer to 
command the escort which may accompany the naturalists, 
he is strictly directed to comply with the wishes of the gen- 
tleman having the direction of the excursion, as far as his 
ideas of safety will authorise. 
“The health of the persons accompanying the naturalists 
in their excursions will of course be a particular object with 
those gentlemen, by taking care not to expose them unne- 
cessarily to the sun in the hottest hours of the day, or to the 
rain, if shelter can be had, and by carrying them as little as 
possible into swampy tracts. 
