CoLENSo. — -Manihus Parkinsonihus sacrum. Ill 



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 productions 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."! 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 

 liidnappers; another that of a New Zealand chief bearing a style of tattoomg 

 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 pubhshed. 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 

 roimd the world." His brother, Stanfield Parkinson, was the editor, who 

 it appears had very great difficulty in obtaining it, with other things, from 



* " Flora N.Z.," Vol. I., pp. 2, 3. 

 t Dieffenbach's Travels in N.Z,, Vol. H., p. 177. Hooker's Hand-book of N.Z. Flora, p. 9. 



