SIR JORRRH BARKR. 
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“ Mr. BrittcMi’s ‘Introduction’ is very interesting. It descriVjes what 
preparations had been made by Banks for an e.xtensive work, to be 
illustrated by many hundreds of plates, and how the issue of it fell 
through, partly because of Solander’s death in 1782, and partlv on 
account of Banks’ devotion to his duties as President of the Royal 
Society. Then follows some description of the various MSS. coimected 
with the voyage, including Solander’s notes on ‘ Plant* Nov* 
Hollandi*,’ which are in two volumes (small quarto) and are in the 
British Museum. 
Tlie .\iistralasian collections are represented by 412 sketches; from the.se 302 
finished drawings were ])repared, of which 340 were engraved. From the copper 
])lates of these, the plates illustrating this v’olume have been lithographed ; they 
represent 328 of the engravings, most of the remainder being unfinished or imperfect 
representations. Three of the drawings of which no ]>lates exist — Tribulus Solandri. 
Pleiogynium Solandri. and Myrmacodia Btccnrii — being of special interest, were 
drawn on stone by the late Robert Morgan, and raise the number of plants repre- 
sented to 331. 
“ That the < opper jtlates of the present work should have remained in 
the British Museum unpublished for nearly 130 years is a remarkable 
occurrence, and shows how leisurely the progress of British science 
can be. IVhile grateful for its belated appearance it seems difficult to 
believe that this most regrettable delay has been unavoidable. 
“ The excellent illustrations are frotn contemporary copperplates, 
engraved from drawings executed by (a) Frederick Polydore Nodder, 
‘ Botanic painter to Queen Caroline,’ whose drawings date from 
1777-1783; 173 drawing, are from hii pencil. (^) John Cleveley’s 
drawing.s date from 1773-1775, and he is epresented by H in the 
present work, (c) James Mi ler’s drawings da'^e from 1773-1775, and 
there are 47 of them, (d) John Frederick Miller’s d • wings were also 
executed from 177.3-1775. and are 61 in number. 
“Useful notes are given of the engravers, I). Macketizie (‘who probably 
did most of the work ’) and G. Sibelius. Information is given in regard 
to Mackenzie’s other botanical work. But few of the plates are marked 
by the uigraver’s name. The value of the work is enhanced by the 
fact that it includes representations of many plants which have not 
been hitherto figured, so far as I am aware. 
“Mr. Britten gives for each plate a Latin description of each plant 
depicted (this is the work of Solander), also notes on the localities 
whence the specimens were obtained, and critical notes. We are 
informed that descriptions of other plants by Solinde ■ are extant, 
but only those are printed of which there are plates. 
“ The work contains a reduction of Captain Cook’s original chart of 
East Australian coast-line (1770), from originals in the British Museum. 
This is in a North Sheet and South Sheet. Also a chart of the coast- 
line of East Australia, as determined by recent surveys to 1890 (inserted 
for comparison with Cook’s coast-line). Also a chart of New Zealand 
