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Charlotte’s Sound in Cook’s Straits and Dusky Bay on the Southwest 
side of South Island were the chief points botanized. Mr.. Ander- 
son, surgeon to Cook’s third expedition, undertook the botanical 
department on that voyage; but though Dusky Bay was visited a 
second time, nothing of importance was added to its botany. It 
remained for Mr. Menzies , the surgeon and naturalist of Captain 
Vancouver’s voyage, to discover the cryptogamic riches of New 
Zealand. That naturalist devoted himself to the collection of Mos- 
ses and Hepaticse , and this at a time when these objects were 
scarcely thought worthy of attention. In 1824 and 1827 followed 
the french expeditions under Captain Duperry (Corvette “Coquille”) 
and Admiral D'Urville (Corvette “Astrolabe”); the combined collec- 
tions of the two voyages, amounting to 200 species of flowering 
plants and ferns , were published by Professor A. Richard as num- 
bering about 200 species. 
On the establishment of colonial gardens and botanists at Syd- 
ney, New Zealand became an object of especial interest to the 
latter; the Bay of Islands was visited by Mr. Charles Frazer in 
1825, and by the two brothers Allan and Richard Cunningham in 
1826, 1833 and 1838, while at the same time in New Zealand 
resident missionaries and colonists, such as Dr. Logan , the Rev. 
Mr. William Colenso and others were making collections. Mr. Bidwill 
(in 1839) was the first to ascend the Tongariro Volcano, 6500 feet 
high, and Dr. Dkffenbach was in 1839 the first European that as- 
cended Mt. Egmont, 8270 feet high. These gentlemen furnished the 
first contributions to the most interesting sub-alpine and alpine flora 
of New Zealand. Then followed the Frenchman M. Raoul , who 
accompanied the French Frigate “If Aube” in 1840 and 1841, and 
again the Frigate “L’ Allies” in 1842 and 1843, during which 
voyages he made a very complete botanical exploration of Banks’ 
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Peninsula and the Bay of Islands. 
With the Antarctic Expedition (1839 — 1843) under Captain 
James Ross, Dr. J. D. Hooker came to New Zealand. It is to this 
eminent botanist that the palm is due; for to him science is in- 
debted for the classical work on the Flora of New Zealand, in 
