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LYING IN BRITISH MUSEUM. PLANT LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND. When Captain Cook made Tiis first voyage to New Zealand, Sir .Joseph Banks, who accompanied him. took a staff of three artists whose sole work was to make permanent records of the plant life and other natural features met with on the voyage. lu delivering the Banks lecture at Canterbury College recently Mr. W. C. Da vies, of the Cawthron Institute, told his audience that in all some SO;* Beautiful copper nlates were prepared of the specimens collected on the Endeavour expedition, approximately 200 dealing with the plant life of our own o: untry. After remaining in' the archives of the British Museum for 130 years the Australian plates were rescued from obscurity early in this century ami published through the efforts of the Government of New South Wales. The New Zealand plates still remain in the custody of the Museum authorities. hut a few sets of the prints louiul their way to New Zealand some years ago. and Mr. Davies was able to show lantern slide reproductions of them.
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Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17414, 31 August 1928, Page 6
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