8 JOURNAL OF AN EXCURSION TO EASTBURY AND 
Place, which he presented to Sir Joseph Banks, and which 
may be seen in the Banks Library in the British Museum. 
This curious Catalogue, which is excessively scarce, was 
printed in 1801 by R. E-aikes of Gloucester, and consists of a 
thin 8vo volume, dedicated to Banks. 
The following Journal, which consists of 22 pages, came 
out of lot 5, which sold for fifteen shillings, and which also 
included a Copy of Some Account of Lisbon, and the 
adjacent country, &c." For this Journal I offered a high 
price to the collector into whose hands it passed, and 
fortunately secured it. It is in the handwriting of Banks, 
in size small quarto, and is stitched in a cover of coarse 
whitish paper, which is pasted Avith a square label, neatly in- 
scribed with its title by Sir Joseph, as given above. I have 
preserved the spelling throughout, and as stops are entirely 
omitted, and capitals not used to distinguish the commence- 
ment of sentences in the course of paragraphs, I have there- 
fore supplied both. The date of Sir Joseph's birth has been 
incorrectly given by some, — even in the Dictionary of 
National Biography a date has been repeated the inaccuracy 
of which had been pointed out in the Penny Cyclopcedia, — 
but in the latter publication it will be found that the exact 
date is January 4th, 1743. He was therefore in his 25th 
year when he made this excursion. 
S. G. P. 
May 29th, 1899. 
JOUBNAL OF SIB JOSEPH BANKS. 
May 15. — Set out this day for Eastbury in Dorsetshire, 
on a visit to my Aunt M" Grenvile. It is situate about 
100 miles from London. As I traveld post and arrivd there 
the same night I made but few observations upon the Boad. 
I saw however through the Windows of my Chaise, Myrica 
