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By SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART. 
[With Preface and Notes by JS. G. Perceval.] 
S a fitting tribute (!) to his memory, on April 14th, 
-^^^ 1886, by order of his great-nephew, Lord Braboiirne, 
the Correspondence and Letters of Sir Joseph Banks were 
put np to auction at Sotheby's, with the result that they 
were scattered amongst the dealers. Apart from some lots 
put into the sale, the collection was divided into 198, which 
realised the sum of £180 5s., less than a pound per lot, 26 
lots fetching but two shillings each, 14 only one shilling 
each. Greatly as it was indebted to Banks, not a single lot 
was rescued by the British Museum, though the Letters and 
Journals were of surjpassing interest and importance. 
In 1896 appeared the " Journal of the Bight Hon. Sir 
Joseph Banks, Bart., K.B., P.R.S., during Capt. Cook's First 
Voyage in H.M.S. Endeavour^ 1768-71," edited by Sir 
Joseph Hooker. From the review of this Journal in the 
Atlienceum of December 26th, 1896, it appears that 'Hhe late 
Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, created a peer by Mr. Gladstone 
in 1880, under the title of Lord Brabourne, claimed all the 
