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in the Hydrographical Office at the Admiralty, as well as in Sir 
Joseph Banks’s copy of the ‘ Eindeavour’s’’ journal, an 
Solander’s MS. journal, both of seve are in the possession o m 
— — Brown, Esq.’* The bicnwent fate of the Journal 
ms to be a matter of unpublished history. If the supposition be 
ni altogether grouniles, that when the ‘Endeavour’ was in harbour, 
nd ther a prospect of botanizing, Banks left the record of 
zoological ee anatomical details to Solander for the most part, one 
can understand Sir Joseph’s brief mention of certain topics, such 
as the characteristics of the oe concerning which his Journal 
Australia.” Apia his nn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1905, 
Captain King’s statement is, as Mr. Fletcher says “ definite,” 
and it seems difficult to see how he could have been mistaken. 
Nevertheless I think it is pretty arian that he was mistaken. 
Admiral Wharton’s ee to Solander is purely eepiet and 
may, I think, be dismissed. Mr. Fle tcher ‘lie ows tha tn of those 
wh 
be found in the Natural History Museum, where the collections and 
MSS. relating to the voyage are preserved. Mr. Carruthers, who 
inherited the Brown-Bennett traditions, never heard of it; and, as 
it would not form part of Banks's MSS., it would not have gone 
with them into the possession ste Lord Brabourne; had it done 
so, it would have shared their fate. 
So far as the kangaroo is concerned, Mr. Fletcher's suggestion 
and objection are met by the fact that the Zoological MSS. (usually 
called the ‘‘ Solander Mss.” but by no means entirely his work, 
Banks, Dryander, and others being represented therein) include 
a long pesenioticn in Latin by Solander of the ‘‘ Kanguru,” drawn 
-_ I oa inclined to think, on the spot. In — MSS. Solander 
wri tin and in Swedish, rarely in English 
ink we must conclude in the absence of any further evidence 
that Solander kept no journal; or at least that, if he did, it has 
not been — ed. 
James Britten. 
* King s Narrative of a Survey of the Intertrepical, &c., Coasts of 
Australia, Ge ii. p. 9 (1827). 
