NATURALISTS AND VOYAGERS MENTIONED
IN THE JOURNAL
Anson, George, Lord (1697-1762), entered the navy in 1712, and was in 1740 sent to the Pacific in command of a squadron. Reaching his destination by way of South America, he captured the "Spanish galleon," and brought it to England, returning by the Cape of Good Hope in 1744. His "Voyage round the World" was published in 1748. In 1746 he was appointed to the command of the Channel Fleet, and was raised to the peerage in 1747. In 1751 he became First Lord of the Admiralty, having virtually performed all the duties of that office for two or three years previously.
Baster, Job (1711-75), a Dutch naturalist, who published many works on natural history, including a treatise on the classification of plants and animals (1768), and "Opuscula subseciva" (1759-65), consisting of miscellaneous observations on animals and plants, referring more especially to seeds and embryos.
Biron, C., author of "Curiosités de la Nature et de l'Art, apportées de deux Voyages des Indes, en Occident, 1698-99; en Orient, 1701-2; avec une Relation abrégée des deux Voyages" (1703).
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de (1729-1811), was successively lawyer, soldier, secretary to the French Embassy in London, and officer under Montcalm in Canada. In 1765 he persuaded the inhabitants of St. Malo to fit out an expedition to colonise the Falkland Islands, but upon these being claimed by the Spaniards, Bougainville was sent out in 1766, in command of the frigate Boudeuse, with a consort, to transfer them to the latter country. After accomplishing this mission he proceeded through the Straits of Magellan and fell in with Otahite (to which he gave the name of Cythère, but which had been previously seen by Quiros and Wallis), the Navigators, and the New Hebrides (Quiros' Terra del Espiritu Santo). Endeavouring to steer due west at about the 15th degree of south latitude, he was, when still out of sight of land, brought up by reefs (outside the Great
