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Zeelandix.” A similar enumeration of the Javan plants was 
begun, but extended only to twenty-eight pages. 
The Australian plants, which formed the most important por- 
tion of the collection, were never arranged for press zn the manner 
of the foregoing, but a cn as of the rough MS. was made, appa- 
equainted d with bolbaniinel terminology 
or unable to read the draft, as He contains numerous errors; this is 
bound in two small quarto volumes, and is the basis of the pre esent 
publication, for which it has been collated with the original draft. 
It has been thought advisable to oe the descriptions in full as a 
specimen of Solander’s work and a s giving details ey ted from 
published accounts of the plants; occasionally a word has been 
ied 
tions are indicated by the use of square brackets. The MS. includes 
a large number of decsiiplnaal besides those of the plants figured, but 
only the BURGE relating to these is now printed. It was evidently, 
the figures of the plants and animals observed on the voyage are 
due, is sufficiently recorded in the preface to his Journal of a Voyage 
in the South Seas, published after his death and edited by his thither 
Stanfield; but a pte words may be said with special oo ae to his 
connection with Banks. His brother tells us that he “ ut 
the business of a woollen-draper; but, taking a pattistled delight 
in drawing flowers, fruits, and other objects of natural history, he 
became so great a proficient in that style of painting, as to attract 
the notice of the most celebrated botanists and connoisseurs in that 
study. In consequence of this, he was, some time after his arrival 
m 
in London, recommended to Joseph Bank ery nume- 
rous collection of elegant and highly-finished drawings of that kind, 
executed by Sydney Parkinson, is a sufficient testimony both of his 
talents and airpleaticn" This collection included 40 drawings of 
animals meta ae figures and specimens brought from India by 
John Gideon Lot n, Governor of Ceylon, and 12 drawings of plants 
(1767-8) hieh like those of the animals, are on vellum. Two, of 
Indian plants, are probably from the drawings brought back by 
Loten; others are noted as from ‘“ Mr. Lee, Hamm ersmith,” and 
‘‘Kew.’’ According to the patgrsoer es of National res aphy, it was 
by the advice of James Lee (not ‘an artist” but the well-known 
nurseryman of Finaaenensiaith that Parkinson was engaged by Banks 
to accompany the voyage to the South Seas. He died during the 
1771. 
The total number of drawings made by Parkinson during the 
voyage was 955, of which 675 were sketches and 280 finished 
peinigi All the Australian and most of the New Zealand ones 
sketches; those from Brazil, Madeira, Tierra del Fuego, and 
the nb pred are nearly all finished drawings ; of the Java 
plan re are 44 finished drawings and 72 sketches: in a few 
cases ‘there ee both sketch and finished drawing of the same plant. 
of each finished drawing are pencil notes by Parkinson, 
