Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Sir Joseph Banks P.R.S. 1743-1820. Cook’s companion on the first voyage in the Endeavour, 1769 to 1771. P.R.S. from 1778 to his death. T.M. Hocken; label: Na te Hakena Tenei Tiki.
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Sir Joseph Banks P.R.S. 1743-1820. Cook’s companion on the 1.st voyage, 1769 to 1771. P.R.S. from 1778 to his death. T.M. Hocken.
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: John Douglas, 1721-1807, Bishop of Salisbury. A friend of Captain Cook’s who, at the request of Lord Sandwich superintended the publication of Cook’s Second Voyage. T.M. Hocken.
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dr Johann Reinhold Forster 1729-1798. Naturalist, with his son on Cook’s second expedition, described the natural history of the voyage. The genus Forstera is named after him. T.M. Hocken; label: Na te Hakena…
On mount in ink: T.M. Hocken. John Robert Godley was born in 1814 at Killigar, Ireland. Educated at harrow & Christchurch, Oxford. He then travelled extensively & in 1844 published his Letters from America marked by great ability & thought. This work…
Dr Hocken’s collector’s chop: Hoc in Loco Deus Rupes; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Daniel Wakefield, Q.C., an eminent chancery barrister & pamphleteer was uncle of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. A man of great…
Dr Hocken’s collector’s chop: Hoc in Loco Deus Rupes; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Edward Gibbon Wakefield, to whom the annexation & colonization of NZ is due was born in London March 20th 1796, and educated…