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book ; and although the present work is confessedly and necessarily 

 incomplete from the want of materials, still it gives a good view of the 

 orders, genera, and species of the islands. " Much remains to be done 

 towards the botany of the Northern Island especially ; of the whole 

 province Taranaki, nothing is known ; and except the Ruahine range 

 by Colenso, no mountain region has been approximately well explored. 

 Then, too, of the outlying islands, as the Kermadec and Chatham 

 Islands, very little is known, and of Bounty or Antipodes Island, 

 nothing ; whilst much remains to be collected on Lord Auckland's 

 group, Campbell's Island, and Macquarrie Islands. The materials are 

 still wanting for a comparison of the volcanic mountains of the 

 Northern Island with the primitive or other mountains of the Middle 

 Island, a comparison essential to make, before the geological or climatic 

 relations of the. Flora of either island can be ascertained." 



Dr. Hooker gives the following interesting details relative to the 

 labours of those who, as collectors or authors, have contributed to our 

 knowledge of the New Zealand Flora. 



In August, 1769, Sir Joseph Banks and his companion, Dr. So- 

 lander, visited the islands in Captain Cook's first voyage, and col- 

 lected in Poverty Bay, Tegadoo, Tolaga, Opuragi, the Thames River, 

 Bay of Islands, Queen Charlotte's Sound, and Admiralty Bay. They 

 obtained about 360 flowering plants and ferns, had folio drawings 

 made of most of them, and excellent manuscript descriptions. 



In 1772, Captain Cook again visited New Zealand, accompanied 



by the two Forsters, Reinwold and George (father and son), and by 



Dr. Sparrman ; they collected at Dusky Bay and Queen Charlotte's 



Sound. Their herbarium amounted to only about 160 species of 



■ flowering plants and ferns. 



In 1777, Captain Cook, during his third voyage, visited New 

 Zealand. On this occasion, Mr. Anderson, his surgeon, was the 

 botanical collector, who obtained very little indeed, and nothing of 

 any importance. 



In 1791, Captain Vancouver arrived in Dusky Bay, on his way 

 to survey the coasts of North-west America, having with him as sur- 

 geon Mr. Archibald Menzies, a very assiduous collector of flowerless 

 plants, who procured many species of Filices, Musci, and Hepaticai. 



In 1822, Captain Duperry visited the islands in the French dis- 

 covery corvette ' Coquille,' when one of his officers, the late Admiral 

 D'Urville, made excellent collections. 



In 1827, Captain (afterwards Admiral) Dumont D'Urville again 

 visited New Zealand in the same ship, renamed the ' Astrolobe,' ac- 

 companied by an able naturalist, M. Lesson, when additional bo- 

 tanical collections were made in Cook's Straits, the Thames River, and 

 the Bay of Islands. The materials of this voyage (containing upwards 

 of 200 flowering plants and ferns) were published by M. A. Richard, 

 in his ' E.ssai d'une Flore de la Nouvelle-Zelande,' with folio plates. 

 (Paris, 1832.) 



In 1825, Mr. Charles Fraser, then superintendent of the Sydney 

 Botanic Gardens, landed for one day in the Bay of Islands, and made a 

 small collection of dried plants. He, however, procured more living 



