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JOURNAL OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOSEPH BANKS, Bart., K.B., P.R.S. During Captain Cook's First Voyage in H.M.S. Endeavour, in 1768-71, to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, &c. Edited by Sir JOSEPH D. HOOKER, F.R.S. With Portraits and Charts. 8vo, 17s. net. NATURE. "This journal, which now sees the light after varying vicissitudes, will take fitting place on our book-shelves by the side of Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle' and Moseley's Challenger Notes' as one of the classics of scientific travel. Sir Joseph Hooker, in realising a hope he has indulged, as he tells us, since he was a boy, adds another to the many services he has rendered to science by presenting to us this journal in the delightful form it has assumed under his editing. . . . As a narrative the journal is full of charm. It comes before us, old as it is, with all the fresliness of a first impression." DAILY CHRONICLE.-" This journal-and we only wish we had more space to quote from it-belongs to that class of literature which never grows old or out of fashion, but will retain a human as well as a scientific interest to the end of time." STANDARD.-"The diary will have a permanent interest because of the vivid picture it draws of regions which hitherto civilised races either had not visited, or, at any rate, had not stayed long enough to influence." TIMES. " Probably many will be grateful to Sir Joseph Hooker for affording them an excuse to re-read the story in the rich and interesting pages of Sir Joseph Banks' journal." - MORNING POST.-" The editor of this volume has performed his work in a manner that calls for high commendation. By judicious selection he has produced a work that will be widely appreciated as an absorbing book of travels, and will also have a peculiar attraction for all who concern themselves with the progress of scientific investigation. LEEDS MERCURY.-"This book is as interesting as any recent work of travel which we have encountered, and it throws light, often of an unexpected kind, on the incidents and progress of early exploration in the Pacific." ATHENAEUM." Naturalists and literary men have now to thank Sir Joseph Hooker, the grandson of Mr. Dawson Turner, for rescuing this most interesting record from oblivion, and for enabling us to place it side. by side with Cook's own journal,” MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD., LONDON. (2