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Another account of the Expedition appeared the same 

 year : "A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas in H.M.S. 

 the Endeavour. Faithfully transcribed from the papers 

 of the late Sydney Parkinson, draughtsman to Joseph 

 Banks, Esq., on his late Expedition with Dr. Solander, 

 round the world. Embellished with views and designs 

 delineated by the Author, and engraved by capital 

 Artists." 



This book gave Banks a great deal of trouble. Parkin- 

 son was quite a young man, with considerable promise as 

 an artist. Banks had been generous toward him, 

 always encouraged him, paid him well, and was much 

 grieved at his untimely death. But he supposed that the 

 result of Sydney's work was his own property, as having 

 been done in his service. Imagine his surprise, on learning 

 that a brother, Stanfield Parkinson, laid claim to Sydney's 

 drawings and collections ! When the above work was 

 published, readers were indulged to a lengthy preface, 

 full of the Editor's wrongs with Mr. Banks ; with an 

 acrimonious account of their dispute ; and plainly 

 charging Banks with embezzling his brother's property : 

 albeit throwing in some admissions of his " generosity, 

 integrity, and probity." The dispute widened and 

 lengthened. Dr. Fothergill (hitherto unacquainted person- 

 ally with Banks) was called in as a sort of arbitrator. 

 After a weary time, during which Banks maintained the 

 rights he had claimed, and Parkinson quarrelled with 

 Dr. Fothergill, the affair came to an end, and Banks 

 gave 500 to Sydney Parkinson's family. Stanfield was 

 evidently rather a crazy person. He presently died in 

 St. Luke's Hospital. 



Of the ten journals which were delivered up to Captain 

 Cook, seven have been printed, recently, in the Historical 

 Records of New South Wales, vol. I. One of these was by 

 Green, the astronomer ; another by Charles Clerke, who 

 was concerned in the later voyages of Cook. 



