Portsmouth."] 
TERRA AUSTRALIS. 
Good Hope, and repairing with as little delay as possible to Spit- 
head^ and transmit to our secretary an account of your arrival. 
During your continuance on the service above-mentioned, you 
are, by all proper opportunities, to send to our secretary for our in- 
formation, accounts of your proceedings and copies of the surveys and 
drawings which you shall have made, and such papers as the Naturalist 
and the Painters employed on board may think proper to send home ; 
and upon your arrival in England you are immediately to repair to 
this office in order to lay before us a full account of your proceed- 
ings in the whole course of your voyage ; taking care before you 
leave the sloop to demand from the officers and petty officers the log 
books and journals which they may have kept and such drawings and 
charts as they may have taken, and to seal them up for our inspection. 
And whereas you have been furnished with a plant cabin for 
the purpose of depositing therein such plants, trees, shrubs, &c, as 
may be collected during the survey above-mentioned, you are, when 
you arrive at Sydney Cove, to cause the said plant cabin to be fitted up 
by the carpenter on the quarter deck of the sloop you command, 
according to the intention of its construction ; and you are to cause 
boxes for containing earth to be made and placed therein, in the same 
manner as was done in the plant cabin carried out by the Porpoise 
store ship, which plant cabin you will find at Sydney Cove. 
You are to place the said plant cabin, with the boxes of earth 
contained in it, under the charge and care of the naturalist and gar- 
dener, and to cause to be planted therein during the survey, such 
plants, trees, shrubs, &c, as they may think suitable for the Royal 
Gardens at Kew ; and you are, as often as you return to Sydney Cove, 
to cause the said plants to be deposited in the governor's garden and 
under his charge, there to remain until you sail for Europe : And so 
soon as you shall be preparing to return home, you are to cause the 
small plant cabin to be removed from the sloop's quarter deck, and 
the one brought out by the Porpoise (which is something larger), to 
be placed there in its stead. In this last mentioned cabin the naturalist 
and gardener are to place the plants, trees, shrubs, &c, which may 
have been collected during the survey, in order to their being brought 
