 | James Edward Smith - 1821 - 656 Seiten
...and the entrance of the Straits of Magellan ; from thence round Cape Horn, and so to Cieorge's land. No people ever went to sea better fitted out for the...got a fine library of Natural History ; they have ali sorts of machines for catching and preserving insects ; all kind of nets, trawls, drags, and hooks... | |
 | Joseph Banks - 1896 - 546 Seiten
...being put in to act during his absence with Banks. An extract from a letter from Ellis to Linufeus gives a clear idea of the arrangements made for the...preserving insects ; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags, and hooks for coral fishing ; they have even a curious contrivance of a telescope by which, put into the... | |
 | 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...preserving insects ; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags, and hooks for coral fishing ; they have even a curious contrivance of a telescope, by which, put into the... | |
 | J. C. Beaglehole - 1992 - 828 Seiten
...of the great Southern continent, and from thence proceed to England by the Cape of good Hope. . . . No people ever went to sea better fitted out for the...preserving insects; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags and hooks for coral fishing; they have even a curious contrivance of a telescope, by which, put into the... | |
 | Anne Salmond - 1992 - 488 Seiten
...Linnaeus at the time: No people ever went to sea better fated out for the purpose of Natural History. They have got a fine Library of Natural History; they have all sorts of machines tor catching and preserving insects; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags and hooks for coral fishing,... | |
 | Elizabeth Buck - 2010 - 253 Seiten
...describing Cook's preparations for research in these terms. No people ever went to sea better fitted for the purpose of Natural History, nor more elegantly....preserving insects; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags, and hooks for coral fishing; they have even a curious contrivance of a telescope by which, put into the... | |
 | Patrick O'Brian - 1997 - 340 Seiten
...Ellis described in a letter4 to Linnaeus - equipment that was said to have cost ten thousand pounds. "No people ever went to sea better fitted out for...preserving insects; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags and hooks for coral fishing . . . All this is owing to you and your writings." There was however one remark... | |
 | Maureen Lazarus, Heather Pardoe, Deborah Spillards - 1997 - 80 Seiten
...permission to accompany the voyage. This set an important precedent. A letter to Linnaeus revealed that "No people ever went to sea better fitted out for the purpose of natural history." Two artists sailed on the Endeavour, Sydney Parkinson and Alexander Buclian. During the three year... | |
 | Victoria Dickenson - 1998 - 344 Seiten
...'Upsala 1775.' John Ellis wrote to Linnaeus, on the occasion of Cook's expedition in the Endeavour, that 'no people ever went to sea better fitted out for the purpose of Natural History. They have got a fine library of Natural History ... They have two painters and draughtsmen ... All... | |
 | Hugh Raffles - 2002 - 324 Seiten
...Intellectual Origins, 125. 87. As the botanist John Ellis wrote, rather tartly, to Linnaeus in August 1768: "No people ever went to sea better fitted out for...preserving insects; all kinds of nets, trawls, drags and hooks for coral fishing; they have even a curious contrivance of a telescope by which, put into the... | |
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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,... 
