not brought into force until 1856. The Penal Settlement on Norfolk Island 
was broken up in 1853, and from experience gained there it was decided not to 
continue this system in any island. 
“ In 1868 some of the Pitcairn Islanders and their friends from Norfolk 
Island visited Sydney ; on the way home measles broke out on the ship and 
compelled them to stay at Lord Howe Island, where the disease made its 
appearance after the ship had left. 
In 1869 a Government party was sent to the island; some of them 
attempted to ascend Mt. Gower, 2,800 feet, the summit of Mt. Lidgbird, 
which is still higher, being inaccessible. Mr. Hill commented at length upon the 
geology, natural history, and other characteristics of the island and supplied 
a statistical register of the inhabitants.” 
The island was visited again officially in April, 1882, by the Hon. John 
Bowie Wilson and party in the “ Thetis.” 
The island is now quite a thriving one and supplies a great portion of the 
palm-seeds to all parts of the world. 
I wish to put on record my appreciation of the kindness shown to my 
collector, Air. Roy Bell, of Sunday Island, by all the inhabitants of Norfolk and 
Lord Howe Islands; he was at each island for a year just prior to the war and, 
without their help so freely given, his work could not have been so productive 
of good to our science. 
The above has been taken from : 
A voyage round the World in His Britannic Majesty’s Sloop, 
“Resolution,” 1772-5 (1777), by George Forster. 
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay. 
C. T. Downing, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of 
Tasmania, Vol. III., p. n., pp. 195-212, 1859. Reviewed Ibis, 1861, 
pp. 119-120, January. 
Other papers on Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island are :— 
A. von Pelzeln, Sitzungb. der Kais. Akad. der. Wissenschaften, 
Vol. XLI., No. 15, pp. 319, 332, 1860. Reviewed Ibis, 1860, pp. 421-3. 
Ibis 1881, pp. 172-2, notes by the Layards. 
Ibis 1885, pp. 48-9, by H. B. Tristram. 
Ibis 1885, pp. 263-270, by W. M. Crowfoot. 
Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. II., No. 3, pp. 36-38. 
A. J. North, August, 1892. 
Nests and eggs of birds found breeding on Lord Howe and Norfolk 
Island. A. J. North, 1890. 
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