 | Joseph Banks - 1896 - 544 Seiten
...the ship that carries the English astronomers to the new-discovered country in the South Sea l . . . where they are to collect all the natural curiosities...the Lords of the Admiralty, on further discoveries. . . . No people ever went to sea better fitted out for the purpose of natural history, nor more elegantly.... | |
 | Joseph Banks - 1896 - 546 Seiten
...the ship that carries the English astronomers to the new-discovered country in the South Sea l . . . where they are to collect all the natural curiosities...the Lords of the Admiralty, on further discoveries. . . . No people ever went to sea better fitted out for the purpose of natural history, nor more elegantly.... | |
 | Arthur Kitson - 1907 - 596 Seiten
...him in the ship that carries the English astronomers to the new discovered country in the South Sea, where they are to collect all the natural curiosities...the Lords of the Admiralty, on further discoveries. No people ever went to sea better fitted out for the purpose of Natural History, nor more elegantly.... | |
 | Joseph Henry Maiden - 1909 - 318 Seiten
...Dr. Solander. to accompany him in the ship that carries the English astronomers to the new-discovered country in the South Sea, lat. about 20° south, and...discoveries of the great Southern Continent-§ And again, " They have the several sorts of salts to surround the seeds, and wax, both beeswax and that... | |
 | J. C. Beaglehole - 1992 - 828 Seiten
...discovered country in the South Sea', and after the completion of the observations of the Transit, they are to proceed under the direction of Mr. Banks,...thence proceed to England by the Cape of good Hope. . . . No people ever went to sea better fitted out for the purpose of Natural History, nor more elegantly.... | |
 | Patrick O'Brian - 1997 - 340 Seiten
...friend of Banks's with long experience of the world would have read with some uneasiness: "After . . . their observations on the transit of Venus they are...further discoveries of the great Southern continent . . ." Whether this was a mistake on Ellis's part or whether Banks or possibly Solander had been boasting... | |
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No people ever went to sea better fitted out for the purpose of Natural History, nor more elegantly. They have got a fine library of Natural History; they have all sorts of machines for catching and preserving insects; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags... 