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SIR JOSEPH BANKS. 
The following additional biographical notes are taken from “ British 
and Irish Botanists” (Britten and Boulger), p. 132: — 
Born Edinburgh. Drawings in Dep. Bot., Brit. Mus. “ Journal of Voyage,” 
1773 (c/r. “ Preface ” and “ E.xplanatory Remarks,” list of plants, 37-50). 
Pritzel, 240; Jackson, 223; Portrait prefi.xed to “ Journal,” engr. Jas. Newton. 
Alexander Buchan ( -1769). 
Banks, in his journal, refers to him as “ the young man I brought 
out as landscape and figure painter.” He had a fit at Tierra del Fuego, 
16th January, 1769, and died at Tahiti, 17th April, in the same year. 
Banks says : “I sincerely regret him as an ingenious and good 
young man, but his loss to me is irretrievable.” 
In Parkinson’s “ Voyage ” there is only the mere mention of Buchan’s 
epilepsy and unconsciousness on the 16th, and his death and burial 
on the 17th April. 
“ Cook’s Journal,” ed. by Wharton, p. 64, says : — 
“ Monday, 17th, At two o’clock this morning, departed this life, 
Mr. Alex. Buchan, landscape draftsman to Mr. Banks, a gentleman 
well skill’d in his profession, and one that will be greatly missed in 
the course of this voyage. He had long been subject to a disorder 
in his bowels, which had more than once brought him to the very 
point of death, and was at one time subject to fits, of one of which 
he was taken on Saturday morning ; this brought on his former 
disorder, which put a period to his life.” 
I know nothing further of him. 
John Reynolds ( -1770). 
In Wharton’s “ Cook ” and Hooker’s “ Banks ” merely the date of 
Reynolds’ death is given. Even Parkinson, who was an artist himself, 
does not mention Reynolds. He died 18th December, 1770, at Bataxda. 
The only other reference found is in Roth’s “ Port Mackay,” where 
it is stated that some original sketches in the British Museum attributed 
to Buchan were probably made by Reynolds. 
Francis Bauer. 
In Pritzel is the following bibliographical note : — 
Bauer, Franz. Tabulse ineditse plantarum in prima Cookiana expeditione 
annis 1769-71 ab Josepho Banksio et Daniele Solandro collectarium, s.a. folio 
28 tab. Bibl. Regia Berol. 
Liber emtus est Londini ex Bibliotheca Fieldiana. Tabulae aeri insculptae 
absque inscriptione inter omnes sumtni artificis facile pulcherriinae. 
If this be correct, then Francis Bauer is another artist set to delineate 
the “ Endeavour ” plants. 
The YOUNGER Forster was artist on Cook’s Second Voyage. 
