CAPTAIN COOK’S MSS. 
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Captain Cool''s Journal published by him in 1903 : all that is known 
of them is that they have been at Manton Hall for more than half a 
century. They were thus described in the Times of Dec. 7, 1922 :— 
“ Of the nine lots, chief prominence is given to the autograph 
manuscript of the diary which Captain Cook kept during his lirst 
voyage to the South Seas, and detailing the remarkable occurrences 
on board H.M. barque Endeavour , from May 27, 176S, to July 11, 
1771, and extending to about 740 folios: one leaf in the account of 
Tahiti is missing. This manuscript was for many years unknown to 
historians, but three contemporary copies were available, one at 
Windsor, one in the Kecord Office, and that belonging to Mr. John 
Corner (now in the Australian Museum at Sydney), from which 
Admiral Wharton printed his version in 1893. There are many verbal 
differences between the printed version and this autograph manuscript. 
The second lot is a pendant to lot 1, and consists of contemporary 
copies of Captain Cook’s correspondence with the Admiralty concerning 
his first voyage, and includes the secret instructions and additional 
instructions to him, known only from this manuscript. The third lot 
is the log-book of H.M.S. Endeavour , May 26, 1768, to October 5, 
1770; while the next is the log-book of H.M.S. Dolphin , August 21, 
1766, to October 16, 1767, dealing with the voyage to the South 
Seas under Captain Samuel Wallis. It was during this voyage that 
Tahiti was discovered, and Wallis reported strongly in favour of this 
island as the most convenient place at which the Transit of Venus, 
due to occur in June, 1769, could be observed, and it was his recom¬ 
mendation which led the Koval Societ} 7- to request the Admiralty that 
the Endeavour be sent there. The autograph manuscript of Captain 
Cook’s description of the coast of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Cape 
Breton, &c., forms another lot. It extends to thirteen pages large 
folio, and has two maps beautifully drawn in water-colours, and pen 
and ink. The manuscript was written while Captain Cook was 
master of H.M.S. Northumberland, the dates ranging from 1758 to 
1762. Another lot consists of Captain Cook’s sailing directions and 
memoranda, probabty written 1755-62 ; while another is an eighteenth 
century Epitome of Voyages 1497-1685, and presumably used by 
Captain Cook.” 
The log was secured for £5,000 by Mr. W. H. Ifould, principal 
librarian of the public library of New South Wales, who came over 
on purpose to obtain it and who also gave £1,780 for the other MSS. 
They will be placed in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, and will even¬ 
tually be housed in the Commonwealth National Library. 
SHOKT NOTES. 
Bryum Sauteri Bry. Eur. as a British Plant. In revising 
the Handbook of British Mosses for a third edition I noticed, what 
had quite escaped my notice previously, that Hobkirk, in the second 
edition of his Synopsis of the British Mosses,” p. 161, gives this 
species as a British one, adding as the localities “ Teesdale (Spruce) ; 
