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were necessary, the early date of the Journal. It was bought by 

 Mr. Dangar, and presented to the Australian Museum, Sydney. 

 It is generally quoted as the " Corner " Journal. 



Admiralty (b) There is a copy possessed by the Admiralty, and now in the 

 Journal. Public Record Office, which tells the story of the whole voyage. 

 It is, says Wharton, in the handwriting of the same clerk. The 

 part which tells the story of the voyage from Batavia to London 

 is printed by Wharton. It is generally quoted as the "Admiralty " 

 Journal. There is evidence that it was written later than the 

 " Corner " Journal. 



Windsor (c) A third copy is at Windsor Castle, and " from its appear - 

 Journal. ance," says Wharton, " was kept for and probably presented to 

 George III." "It has been written with especial care and by 

 several hands. It was evidently the last in point of time." In 

 that case it seems curious that it should " terminate a few days 

 before reaching Batavia." No doubt it was because at that 

 point the voyage of discovery ended. 



" The three copies," writes Wharton, " are practically identical, 

 except for the period August i3th to igth, 1770, during which 

 the wording is often different, though the events are the same." 

 For that period Cook's clerk seems, in the two later copies, to 

 have had the use of Banks's Journal. 



I regret that I have been unable to consult copies (&) and (c). 

 A comparison of the three copies would be interesting ; though 

 it is unlikely that it would lead to any important change of 

 view. 



Banks's BANKS'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS. In the Preface to his edition, 



Journal. sir Joseph Hooker traced the history of the Journal to the auction 

 sale of Banksian MSS. at Sotheby's on the i4th April, 1886. 

 At that sale " Banks's Journal of a Voyage to the Sandwich 

 Islands (!) and New Zealand, from March 1769 to July 1771, in 

 the autograph of Banks," was sold as lot 176 to an autograph 

 dealer named Waller for j 2s. 6d. In 1893 Waller, when 

 questioned, " did not specially remember the purchase, and he 

 does not believe that he has got the manuscript." " So that 

 where it is now," wrote Mr. Carruthers, late Keeper of the 

 Botanical Collections at the British Museum, " no one knows." 

 To this statement, Sir Joseph Hooker added in 1896 the following 

 note : " I have since ascertained that the Journal came into 

 the possession of J. Henniker Heaton, Esq., M.P., who informs 

 me that he disposed of it to a gentleman in Sydney, New South 

 Wales." Being unable to get the use of the Journal, Hooker 

 printed part about one half of a copy which had been made 

 by direction of his grandfather, Mr. Turner, a friend of Banks. 



The " gentleman in Sydney " was Mr. Alfred Lee, who sold the 

 Journal to Mr. Mitchell, and it is now the treasure of the Mitchell 

 Library, Sydney. It is a complete Journal, in Banks's hand- 

 writing, of the whole voyage from the first day (2^th August, 



