HISTORICAL RECORDS.
i Tlie news rfihat a .single leaf from Captain Cook's journal of his first .: voyage ihlais been sold for £451, tends to show that the American; buyers baive begun .to turn rtiheii- a.tt.anftion even to Imistoiicail records, connected •with New Zealand. "When a wellkntown Well&ngton oolleotor mentioned (recently that be had a facsimile of 1a leaf of the. journal which isfewed ifltoalt Botany Bay mats originally dhristened Botanists' Bay, isome doiubt wias thrown on the statement, it being isftaited in Sydney that nothing was knlown. of the manusiaript at Itihe. JBawtJiisth Musenm. It is, howevei', the origomal of the leaf wMch, Qias now been sold. In it Captain Cook says:— "The great numbers of new plants,, etc., our gentleman (botanists have collected in this place ocoasiionisi my giving it tlie nia,me of Botanislts' Bay."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10414, 7 September 1911, Page 4
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136HISTORICAL RECORDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10414, 7 September 1911, Page 4
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