

FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



MATERIALS TOWARDS A FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND, 

 AUCKLAND ISLAND, AND CHATHAM ISLANDS. 



NOTES on the MATERIALS at present existing towards a 

 FAUNA of NEW ZEALAND, by JOHN EDWARD GRAY, 

 F.R.S., Keeper of the Zoological Collections in the 

 British Museum. 



NOTHING was known of the Natural Productions of New 

 Zealand until Captain Cook's first voyage, in which he 

 was accompanied by Mr. (afterwards Sir Joseph) Banks, 

 Dr. Solander, and Mr. Sydney Parkinson, an artist of con- 

 siderable merit, who was employed by Sir Joseph Banks to 

 draw the specimens of animals and plants which were dis- 

 covered during the voyage. The notes and drawings made 

 by these gentlemen during this voyage contain many species 

 found by them in the various parts of New Zealand at which 

 the expedition touched. 



Captain Cook, in his second voyage, was accompanied by 

 John Reinhold Forster and his son George Forster. The 

 latter of these gentlemen made drawings of a considerable 

 number of animals observed during the voyage, many of 

 them having been discovered in New Zealand. 



The drawings made by Sydney Parkinson and George 

 Forster, together with the manuscript notes of Dr. Solander, 

 are with the Banksian Collection of Plants in the British 

 Museum, and form part of the very extensive and magnifi- 

 cent collection of Natural History Drawings belonging to 

 that institution. 



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