NATURALISTS AND VOYAGERS MENTIONED 

 IN THE JOUENAL 



ANSON, George, Lord (1697-1762), entered the navy in 1712, and 

 was in 1740 sent to the Pacific in command of a squadron. Reaching 

 his destination by way of South America, he captured the " Spanish 

 galleon," and brought it to England, returning by the Cape of Good 

 Hope in 1744. His " Voyage round the World " was published in 

 1748. In 1 7 46 he was appointed to the command of the Channel Fleet, 

 and was raised to the peerage in 1747. In 1751 he became First 

 Lord of the Admiralty, having virtually performed all the duties of 

 that office for two or three years previously. 



BASTER, Job (1711-75), a Dutch naturalist, who published many 

 works on natural history, including a treatise on the classification of 

 plants and animals (1768), and " Opuscula subseciva" (1759-65), 

 consisting of miscellaneous observations on animals and plants, re- 

 ferring more especially to seeds and embryos. 



BIRON, C., author of " Curiosites de la Nature et de 1'Art, apportees 

 de deux Voyages des Indes, en Occident, 1698-99 ; en Orient, 1701-2 ; 

 avec une Relation abregee des deux Voyages" (1703). 



BOUGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine de (1729-1811), was successively 

 lawyer, soldier, secretary to the French Embassy in London, and 

 officer under Montcalm in Canada. In 1765 he persuaded the in- 

 habitants of St. Malo to fit out an expedition to colonise the Falkland 

 Islands, but upon these being claimed by the Spaniards, Bougainville 

 was sent out in 1766, in command of the frigate Boudeuse, with a 

 consort, to transfer them to the latter country. After accomplishing 

 this mission he proceeded through the Straits of Magellan and fell in 

 with Otahite (to which he gave the name of Cyth&re, but which had 

 been previously seen by Quiros and Wallis), the Navigators, and the New 

 Hebrides (Quiros' Terra del Espiritu Santo). Endeavouring to steer 

 due west at about the 15th degree of south latitude, he was, when 

 still out of sight of land, brought up by reefs (outside the Great 



