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Their MSS. descriptive of the plants, to- 
gether with about 200 folio drawings, were 
afterwards prepared for the press, but were 
never published, and are still preserved in 
the British Museum. 
When Captain Cook again visited New 
Zealand in the year 1772, he was accom- 
panied by the two Forsters (father and son) 
and by Dr Sparmann. They collected about 
160 species of flowering plants and ferns 
at Dusky and Queen Charlotte’s Sounds. 
Captain Cook’s third visit to New Zea- 
land was made in 1777, and his botanical 
collector on that occasion was Dr Spar- 
man, the surgeon of the expedition, but 
nothing of any value was collected by him. 
The next botanical collector to visit New 
Zealand was Mr Archibald Menzies, who 
accompanied Captain Vancouver on his 
mission to survey the coasts of North-west 
America, the expedition calling at Dusky 
Sound, where Mr Menzies landed and col- 
lected largely of the plants growing in the 
locality. 
Good collections were made by Captain 
Dumont D’Urville in 1822 and 1827, his 
latter visit being in the “Astrolabe.” The 
plants obtained by him and _ by his 
naturalist on the second visit, D. M. Lesson, 
were from Cook’s Strait, the Thames, and 
the Bav of Islands. Descriptions of the 
slants obtained were publihed in Paris. 
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Dr Hooker’s work was published in 1854- 
1855, and it included 1060 species of New 
Zealand plants. In the preface to his 
“Handbook of the New Zealand Flora,” 
published in 1864, Dr Hooker mentions that 
he had re-examined most of the materiais 
described in his earlier work, and that these 
consisted of the collections of Banks and 
Solander, and of Forster, in the British 
Museum, and of those of the Cunninghams, 
Colenso, Sinclair, Bidwill, Dieffenbach, 
Raoul, Lyall, and his own, all preserved in 
the Hookerian Herbarium; and he adds that 
since the publication of his earlier work, 
little of novelty had been added to the 
flora of the North Island, although many 
