NATURALISTS AND VOYAGERS MENTIONED 
IN THE JOURNAL 
Anson, George, Lord (1697-1762), entered the navy in 1712, and 
was in 1740 sent to the Pacific in command ofasquadron. Reaching 
his destination by way of South America, he captured the “Spanish 
galleon,” and brought it to England, returning by the Cape of Good 
Hope in 1744. His “‘ Voyage round the World” was published in 
1748. In 1746 he was appointed to the command of the Channel Fleet, 
and was raised to the peerage in 1747. In 1751 he became First 
Lord of the Admiralty, having virtually performed all the duties of 
that office for two or three years previously. 
Baster, Job (1711-75), a Dutch naturalist, who published many 
works on natural history, including a treatise on the classification of 
plants and animals (1768), and ‘“Opuscula subseciva” (1759-65), 
consisting of miscellaneous observations on animals and plants, re- 
ferring more especially to seeds and embryos. 
Brrovn, C., author of “ Curiosités de la Nature et de l’Art, apportées 
de deux Voyages des Indes, en Occident, 1698-99 ; en Orient, 1701-2 ; 
avec une Relation abrégée des deux Voyages” (1703). 
BouGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine de (1729-1811), was successively 
lawyer, soldier, secretary to the French Embassy in London, and 
officer under Montcalm in Canada. In 1765 he persuaded the in- 
habitants of St. Malo to fit out an expedition to colonise the Falkland 
Islands, but upon these being claimed by the Spaniards, Bougainville 
was sent out in 1766, in command of the frigate Boudeuse, with a 
consort, to transfer them to the latter country. After accomplishing 
this mission he proceeded through the Straits of Magellan and fell in 
with Otahite (to which he gave the name of Cythére, but which had 
been previously seen by Quiros and Wallis), the Navigators, and the New 
Hebrides (Quiros’ Terra del Espiritu Santo). Endeavouring to steer 
due west at about the 15th degree of south latitude, he was, when 
still out of sight of land, brought up by reefs (outside the Great 
