15 February 1769

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 15 February 1769 Endeavour Voyage Maps James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia Transcript of Cook's Journal Sydney Parkinson's Journal The authorised published account of Cook's Voyage by John Hawkesworth 1769 Annotations Index Search Contact us Search for in Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine

15 February 1769 15. Calm this morn: went in the boat and killd Procellaria velox, Nectris munda and fuliginosa, which two last are a new genus between Procellaria and Diomedea: this we reckon a great acquisition to our bird collection. [31] My stay out today was much shortned by a breeze of wind which brought me aboard by 11 o clock and before night blew very fresh. Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 183, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17690215.html