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work, and at his suggestion the materials were transferred 
with the same object to my maternal grandfather, Dawson 
Turner, F.R.S.,! an eminent botanist and antiquarian, who had 
been a friend of Banks. Mr. Turner at once had the whole 
faithfully transcribed, but for which precaution the Journal 
would as a whole have been irretrievably lost, as the sequel 
will show. Beyond having copies of the manuscript made, 
Mr. Turner seems to have done nothing towards the Life, 
and after a lapse of some years the originals were returned, 
together with the copies, to Mr. Knatchbull Hugessen, who 
placed them in the hands of the late Mr. Bell, Secretary of 
the Royal Society, in the hopes that he would undertake 
to write the Life. For their subsequent wanderings and 
the ultimate fate of many portions, I am indebted to Mr. 
Carruthers, F.R.S., late Keeper of the Botanical Collections 
at the British Museum, who has favoured me with the 
following interesting letter concerning them :— 
British Muszum (Natura History), 
CRoMWELL Roap, SoutH Kensineron, 8.W., 
14th July 1893. 
Dear Sir JosrpH—Since I saw you about the Journal of Sir 
Joseph Banks in Captain Cook’s Voyage, I have been making further 
inquiries regarding the original document. 
The Banksian Journal and correspondence were sent to the Botani- 
cal Department, after correspondence with Mr. Knatchbull Hugessen, 
to remain in my keeping till the death of Lady Knatchbull, when it 
would become the property of the trustees. I was instructed to 
deposit it in the Manuscript Department. This was in October 1873. 
Some time thereafter I persuaded Mr. Daydon Jackson to look at the 
correspondence with the view of preparing a biography of Banks. 
This he agreed to do. I wrote to Mr. Bell, who informed me in a 
letter written 14th February 1876, that he had tried to get Lord 
? It was when on a visit to my grandfather in 1833 that I first saw the 
original Journal in Banks’s handwriting. It was then being copied, and I 
was employed to verify the copies of the earlier part by comparison with 
the original. I well remember being as a boy fascinated with the Journal, 
and I never ceased to hope that it might one day be published. 
