xii PREFACE 



It will be seen from the above that the present work 

 owes its existence to the copy of the original made by the 

 Miss Turners, and of which I was permitted by the Trus- 

 tees of the British Museum to have a transcript made for 

 publication. In doing this I have largely exercised my 

 duties as editor in respect of curtailments. The Journal 

 was literally a diary, to which may truly be applied the 

 motto nulla dies sine linea, and contains nearly double 

 the quantity of matter here reproduced. The omitted por- 

 tions are chiefly observations on the wind and weather ; 

 extracts from the ship's log, which find their proper place 

 in Cook's Journal ; innumerable notices of birds and marine 

 animals that were of constant recurrence ; and lists of 

 plants and animals, many with MS. names that have since 

 been superseded. 



Owing also to the Journal being a diary written up 

 from day to day, and in no way revised for publication, the 

 grammar and orthography are in the original very loose, 

 and I have therefore corrected the language to accord with 

 modern requirements ; the only exceptions being in the 

 case of native words, such as Otahite, tattowing, kangooroo, 

 etc., of which the spelling is consistent throughout, and 

 which consequently really represent Banks's own impres- 

 sion of the native pronunciation of such words. 



It remains gratefully to record my obligations to the 

 Trustees of the British Museum, for permission to tran- 

 scribe the Journal, and to the Officers of the Natural 

 History Department, Sir W. Flower, Mr. Carruthers, and 

 Mr. Murray, and to Mr. E. E. Sykes, an acute malacologist, 

 for aid in the endeavour to determine some of the animals 

 designated by MS. names in the Journal. My friend Mr. 

 B. D. Jackson, Sec.L.S., author of the article on Banks in 

 the Dictionary of National Biography, has kindly supplied 

 me with information for the Life of Banks, and has con- 



