xii PREFACE 
It will be seen from the above that the present work 
owes its existence to the copy of the original made by the 
Miss Turners, and of which I was permitted by the Trus- 
tees of the British Museum to have a transcript made for 
publication. In doing this I have largely exercised my 
duties as editor in respect of curtailments. The Journal 
was literally a diary, to which may truly be applied the 
motto nulla dies sine linea, and contains nearly double 
the quantity of matter here reproduced. The omitted por- 
tions are chiefly observations on the wind and weather ; 
extracts from the ship’s log, which find their proper place 
in Cook’s Journal; innumerable notices of birds and marine 
animals that were of constant recurrence; and lists of 
plants and animals, many with MS. names that have since 
been superseded. 
Owing also to the Journal being a diary written up 
from day to day, and in no way revised for publication, the 
grammar and orthography are in the original very loose, 
and I have therefore corrected the language to accord with 
modern requirements; the only exceptions being in the 
case of native words, such as Otahite, tattowing, kangooroo, 
etc, of which the spelling is consistent throughout, and 
which consequently really represent Banks’s own impres- 
sion of the native pronunciation of such words. 
It remains gratefully to record my obligations to the 
Trustees of the British Museum, for permission to tran- 
scribe the Journal, and to the Officers of the Natural 
History Department, Sir W. Flower, Mr. Carruthers, and 
Mr. Murray, and to Mr. E. R. Sykes, an acute malacologist, 
for aid in the endeavour to determine some of the animals 
designated by MS. names in the Journal. My friend Mr. 
B. D. Jackson, Sec.L.S., author of the article on Banks in 
the Dictionary of National Biography, has kindly supplied 
me with information for the Life of Banks, and has con- 
