22* PROCELLARIIDiE. 



When the ' Endeavour,' under Captain Cook's command, was dispatched 

 to observe the transit of Venus in 1769 at some point in the South 

 Pacific Ocean, Sir Joseph Banks volunteered to sail in her, with the object of 

 collecting such objects of natural history as fell in his way. He was 

 accompanied by Dr. Solander ; and his Natural-history Staff comprised 

 two artists, Mr. Buchan and Mr. Sydney Parkinson. Buchan, who was 

 especially engaged to draw the scenery of the places visited, died at Otaheite ; 

 and Parkinson, by whom a number of drawings were made, both of fish, 

 birds, and other zoological subjects, also died after the ' Endeavour ' sailed 

 from Batavia on her way home. His numerous drawings became the 

 property of his employer, Sir Joseph Banks, and they are now extant in the 

 British Museum. 



Those relating to the Petrels are sixteen in number. They all bear 

 the signature of Sydney Parkinson ; the date when, and frequently the 

 latitude and longitude where they were made, are also written upon them. 

 This much is entered in ink ; but besides these marks they have notes in 

 pencil inscribed upon them in another handwriting, and evidently by 

 some one who was present at the time the sketches were executed. These 

 pencil-notes always include a generic and specific name, which correspond 

 with those employed in Solander's MS., to which I have had access. 



The particulars of Cook's first voyage are fully given in the second and 

 third volumes of Dr. Hawksworth's " Collection of Voyages'*, and, being 

 compiled from materials supplied by Captain Cook himself, and also by Sir 

 Joseph Banks, must be considered authentic. 



* Au Account of the Voyages undertaken by order of His present [Majesty for making 

 Discoveries in tlie Southern Hemisphere^ and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain 

 "Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the 'Dolphin/ the 'Swallow/ and the 'Endeavour.' 

 Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of 

 Joseph Banks, Esq. By John Hawksworth, LL.D. In Three Volumes. Illustrated by a great 

 variety of Charts and Maps relative to the Countries now first discovered or hitherto imperfectly 

 known. London : 1773. 4to. 



