I JOURNAL OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS 
East Indies about 1654, and entered the Company’s service. He 
was made Consul at Amboyna, where he resided until his death, 
making large collections there and in the adjacent islands. Not- 
withstanding that he became totally blind in 1669, he was the author 
of several works on natural history, which, however, were not published 
until after his death, notably the “Herbarium Amboinense” (1741- 
55), “Herbarii Amboinensis Auctuarium” (1755), supplementing 
the former work, “D’Amboinische Rariteitkammer” (1704), and 
“ Thesaurus imaginum piscium, testaceorum, et cochlearum” (1711). 
SHarp, Captain Bartholomew (17th century), made several buccaneer- 
ing voyages to the South Seas, chiefly off the coast of South America and 
Darien. He kept a journal, and published an account of his voyages 
in 1684. 
SHELVocKE, George (18th century), buccaneer, although he had 
been long in the navy, went out in command of the Speedwell (privateer) 
in 1719-22 to the South Seas. He was wrecked on Juan Fernandez, 
but built a craft out of the remains of the wreck, and reached Peru ; 
he thence sailed to Formosa. After three years of constant fighting 
and adventures, he reached England and published his ‘‘ Voyage round 
the World by way of the Great South Sea” (1726). 
Stoanez, Sir Hans, Bart. (1660-1753), botanist and physician, He 
went to Jamaica in 1687, collecting 800 plants there, and afterwards 
published an account of his travels (1707-25), and a “Catalogue of 
the Plants of Jamaica” (1696). He became Secretary to the Royal 
Society in 1693, and edited its Transactions for twenty years. He 
was appointed Physician-General to the army, and was the first 
medical practitioner to be created a baronet (1716). He was elected 
President of the College of Physicians in 1719, and of the Royal 
Society in 1727, retaining the latter dignity until 1740. He was an 
indefatigable collector, and his library and collections, which he by will 
directed should be offered to the nation for £20,000, were in 1759 
opened to the public as the British Museum. 
Tasman, Abel Jansen (cir. 1602-59), Dutch navigator. In 1639 
he was sent by Van Diemen to the Philippines and Japan; and 
in 1642 the same Governor directed him to investigate the south of 
New Holland. He fell in with Van Diemen’s Land, without discover- 
ing it to be an island, and thence sailed across to New Zealand, which 
he called Staten Land. Anchoring in Massacre Bay, he lost three 
men, killed by the natives (whence the name), and then coasted along 
the west coast of North Island. After leaving this he reached the 
Friehdly Islands, returning to Batavia by the north coast of New 
Guinea. In 1644 he undertook a third voyage to the north coast of 
New Holland and discovered the Gulf of Carpentaria. He died at 
Batavia in 1659. 
