SOME FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE OF BANKS. 
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furniture, of a new farinaceous food, of kangaroos, black swans and 
ducks, parrots, and he hopes soon to send a further account of their 
discoveries, particularly that of the river to the westward, &c. 
Paterson to Banks, 29th September, 1808,* * * § from “ Launceston, 
Port Dalrymple,” discusses Governor Bligh’s deposition. Mentions that 
he has discovered fossils. Gives an interesting account of the insect 
which produces manna (? lerp). “It is found only on the narrow- 
leaved eucalyptus (? arnygdalina). Twenty pounds might be procured 
from one tree.” 
After some delay he returned to Sydney after the deposition of 
Bligh, and assumed the post of Acting Governor. He was ill when 
Governor Macquarie arrived, and shortly afterwards left for England, 
and died, 21st June, 1810, on board the “ Dromedary,” off Cape Horn. 
The genus Patersonia, Iridese, was dedicated to him by Brown, 
who says of him — “ in Nova Cambria Australi, cuius regionis Floram 
summo cum ardore per plures annos investigavit ” (Prod. 159). 
Lagunaria Patersoni, a Norfolk Island tree was named after him. 
6. The letters of Lieut. Charles Clerlce,^ of the “ Resolution,” show 
how indebted he was to Banks and how warmly he felt towards liis 
patron. See also the letters re Banks’ leaving the “ Resolution.” 
See also,J when Lieut. Clerke had to appear before the magistrates, 
evidently on account of a debt. 
He writes under date 17th August, 1779§ (he died, 22nd), a touching 
farewell letter to Banks. He had collected specimens for him, as 
well as the state of his health permitted, and bequeathed the whole 
of them to his patron. 
7. Captain \ Matthew Flinders, R.N. He was born at Douingtoii, 
Lincolnshire, 16th March, 1771, the son of a physician. He early 
went to sea ; he was a midsh pman with Hunter, and one of his 
voyages was with Captain Bligh in the “ Providence,” to the 
South Sea Islands. I propose only to deal with the period of 
his connection with Sir Joseph Banks, his patron, likewise a Lincoln- 
shire man. On his way to England from Australia in a little l)oat 
of 29 tons — the “Cumberland” — he was detained at the Mauritius 
in December, 1803, and kept there till 1810. He was an ambitious 
and capable explorer, and fretted his heart out. His monumental 
work — “ Account of a Voyage to Terra Australis ” was published, 
pitiful to relate, on the very day of his death — llth July, 1814; our 
author having crowded a phenomenal amount of adventure and hard- 
ship into his brief life of 40 years. 
• Hist. Rec., vi, 767. 
t e.g., Hist. Rtc., i (1), 381. 
t Ib., 403, 404. 
§ Ib., 425. 
