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engravings have never been published."* And I have good reasons for 
adding, that the number of drawings of plants and animals discovered by 
them in other places during that voyage would far exceed this. 
Mr. John Edward Gray (late keeper of the Zoological collections in the 
British Museum) also bears testimony to Mr. Parkinson's abilities in his 
notes on the Fauna of New Zealand, published in Vol. II. of Dieffenbach's 
Travels in New Zealand. Mr. Gray says :—‘ Nothing was known of the 
natural produetions of New Zealand until Captain Cook's first voyage, 
in which he was accompanied by Mr. (afterwards Sir Joseph) Banks, Dr. 
Solander, and Mr. Sydney Parkinson, an artist of considerable merit, who 
was employed by Sir Joseph Banks to draw the specimens of animals and 
plants which were discovered during the voyage. The drawings made by 
Sydney Parkinson, together with the manuscript notes of Dr. Solander, are 
with the Banksian collection of plants in the British Museum, and form part 
of the very extensive and magnificent collection of natural history drawings 
belonging to that institution." t To which I will merely add that those 
drawings are folio size. 
Unfortunately this good, able, and active young man died at sea on their 
voyage home from the South Seas, in January, 1771, about a month after 
leaving Batavia. His published journal, which is profusely illustrated, 
contains, among other interesting drawings, a few which are not to be found 
in Cook's Voyage, one being the Tahitian lad Taiota, the hero of Cape 
Kidnappers ; another that of a New Zealand chief bearing a style of tattooing 
which has long become extinct, and of which I only saw a few specimens 
some forty years ago; there are also views of scenery here on our east 
coast, and a portrait of himself. In his journal he gives the common and 
Latin names of nearly eighty plants of the Society Islands, with their 
descriptions and uses ; occupying no less than fourteen large 4to. pages ; and 
several copious vocabularies of the various languages which he had noticed 
during the voyage. Several of his entries made throughout the voyage are 
not to be found in Cook—that is, as published. A few of the most striking 
of these being but little known, I shall copy into this paper. 
The Journal was published in London in the year 1773, in 4to., (same 
size as Cook's Voyages and in the same year), entitled, ** A Journal of a 
Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship the ‘ Endeavour,’ faith- 
fully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, draughts- 
man to Joseph Banks, Esq., on his late expedition with Dr. Solander 
round the world.” His brother, Stanfield Parkinson, was the editor, who 
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* « Flora N.Z.,” Vol. L, pp. 2, 3. 
t Dieffenbach’s Travels in N.Z., Vol. IL., p. 177. Hooker's Hand-book of N.Z. Flora, p. 9. 
