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of time which has passed, and the imperfect method of pre- 

 servation then used, have now perished. A few specimens of 

 the fish, preserved in spirits, are in the collection of the Bri- 

 tish Museum, and a few birds and fish similarly preserved 

 are in the collection of the College of Surgeons ; but these 

 have generally so lost their colour that they are of com- 

 paratively little use, except to point out any minute organic 

 character that may have escaped the eye of the artist. 



The collection of shells appears to have been numerous. 

 Many of them remained in the hands of the late Mr. Hum- 

 phreys, and were distributed a few years ago at the sale of 

 his stock. This clever conchologist also notices many of them 

 in his Catalogue of the Duchess of Portland's Collection, 

 and in the Catalogue of the Calonne Collection. Martyn, 

 the most beautiful conchological artist of his time, published 

 three volumes of engraved imitations of his drawings, consist- 

 ing almost entirely of the South Sea shells discovered by 

 these expeditions ; and his figures were copied by Chemnitz 

 into his large and more extensively known work, and have 

 been thus introduced into the scientific catalogues. Many 

 of the species of Martyn's figures are from New Zealand. 



The insects collected during these voyages were described 

 from the specimens in the Banksian Cabinet by Fabricius, 

 when he visited England, and are published in his different 

 works. 



From the time of Cook's voyages until within these last 

 few years there appear to have been no collections received 

 from that country, with one exception; for, in 1812 or 1813, 

 Captain Barclay, of the ship Providence, brought home a 

 bird which Dr. Shaw, in the last volume of the ' Naturalist's 

 Miscellany,' described under the name of the Southern 

 Apteryx, or Apteryx Australis. Many persons regarded 

 this figure and description with doubt, but the specimen 

 described by Dr. Shaw having at length found its way into 

 the collection of the Earl of Derby, that liberal nobleman 

 allowed it to be re-stuffed, and a second account of this bird 

 appeared in the Transactions of the Zoological Society. 

 Since that period several specimens have been received in 

 London, and are known as the Kiwi of the natives. 



