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work, and at his suggestion the materials were transferred 

 with the same object to my maternal grandfather, Dawson 

 Turner, F.RS., 1 an eminent botanist and antiquarian, who had 

 been a friend of Banks. Mr. Turner at once had the whole 

 faithfully transcribed, but for which precaution the Journal 

 would as a whole have been irretrievably lost, as the sequel 

 will show. Beyond having copies of the manuscript made, 

 Mr. Turner seems to have done nothing towards the Life, 

 and after a lapse of some years the originals were returned, 

 together with the copies, to Mr. Knatchbull Hugessen, who 

 placed them in the hands of the late Mr. Bell, Secretary of 

 the Eoyal Society, in the hopes that he would undertake 

 to write the Life. For their subsequent wanderings and 

 the ultimate fate of many portions, I am indebted to Mr. 

 Carruthers, F.RS., late Keeper of the Botanical Collections 

 at the British Museum, who has favoured me with the 

 following interesting letter concerning them : 



BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY), 

 CROMWELL ROAD, SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W., 

 Uth July 1893. 



DEAR SIR JOSEPH Since I saw you about the Journal of Sir 

 Joseph Banks in Captain Cook's Voyage, I have been making further 

 inquiries regarding the original document. 



The Banksian Journal and correspondence were sent to the Botani- 

 cal Department, after correspondence with Mr. Knatchbull Hugessen, 

 to remain in my keeping till the death of Lady Knatchbull, when it 

 would become the property of the trustees. I was instructed to 

 deposit it in the Manuscript Department. This was in October 1873. 

 Some time thereafter I persuaded Mr. Daydon Jackson to look at the 

 correspondence with the view of preparing a biography of Banks. 

 This he agreed to do. I wrote to Mr. Bell, who informed me in a 

 letter written 14th February 1876, that he had tried to get Lord 



1 It was when on a visit to my grandfather in 1833 that I first saw the 

 orife A Journal in Banks's handwriting. It was then being copied, and I 

 was employed to verify the copies of the earlier part by comparison with 

 the original. I well remember being as a boy fascinated with the Journal, 

 and I never ceased to hope that it might one day be published. 



