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by Mr. Gregory M. Mathews, and published by him in the sec- 
ond volume of his Birds of Australia. Since the time of Mr. 
George Robert Gray the manuscript had apparently been lost 
sight of by ornithologists. Neither Mr. Salvin nor Dr. God- 
man knew of its existence. On Cook’s second voyage (1772- 
1775) Dr. Johann Reinhold Forster was naturalist, his son 
Johann Georg Adam Forster (commonly called George 
Forster) bird artist, and Dr. Anders Sparrman assistant to the 
elder Forster. In 1785, Forster published his Mémoire sur les 
Albatros in Tome X of Mémoires de Mathématique et de 
Physique, présentés a ! Académie Royale des Sciences { Paris], 
describing three species. Although catalogued by Carus and 
Engelmann in their Bibliotheca Zoologica and quoted from 
that work by Dr. Coues in his Third Instalment of American 
Ornithological Bibliography, this memoir was overlooked by 
nomenclators until 1902 when Mr. C. Davies Sherborn drew 
attention to it in his Index Animalium. Owing to disagree- 
ments between the British Government and Forster, the larger 
results of Forster’s work on the voyage remained unpublished 
during his lifetime. In 1844, under the editorship of Dr. 
Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein, the results finally appeared in 
Descriptiones Animalium. Priority of technical names was 
lost in most instances by this long delay. On his third voy- 
age (1776-1780), Cook was accompanied by two artists, 
William W. Ellis and John Webber. Ellis appears to have 
made all of the bird drawings on this voyage. 
Parkinson’s drawings and Solander’s manuscript, George 
Forster’s drawings, and FEllis’s drawings passed into the pos- 
session of Sir Joseph Banks. The specimens obtained on the 
second voyage went in part to the British Museum, and those 
on the third voyage, at least, to the collection of Sir Joseph 
Banks. “Some found their way into the Leverian Museum” 
(J. E. Gray, Dieffenbach’s Travels in New Zealand, Vol. Hl, 
p. 178). The Leverian Museum was the private museum of 
Sir Ashton Lever, established in London during the latter 
part of the eighteenth century, and finally dispersed by auc- 
tion in 1806. In our particular field, Latham based his de- 
scriptions largely upon the collections of the British Museum, 
of the Leverian Museum, and of Sir Joseph Banks, availing 
himself of the fruits of Cook’s voyages. Even for the time, 
