BOTANY BAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 8 September 1911, Page 4

BOTANY BAY.

The news that a single leaf fron Captain Cook's journal of his first .■nrago lias boon sold for £lsl, tends :q show that the American buyers save begun to turn their attention ven to historical records connected .vitli New Zealand (remarks an oxrhange). When a well-known Wellington collector mentioned recently that ie had a fac-similo of a leaf of the journal which showed that Botany Bay was originally christened Botanists’ Bay, sonic doubt was thrown on the statement, it being stated in Sydney that nothing was known of the manuscript at the British Museum. It is, however, the original of the leaf which has now been sold. In it Captain Cook says: “The great, numbers of new plants, etc., our gentlemen botanists have collected in this place, occasions my giving it the name of Botanists’ Bay.”