Under May 13 we read: "we found (in the space) _Bottonist_ Harbour." Eight lines lower, though in distinctly altered form, we read: "saw at _Botany_ Harbour." How different all this from the unaltered, unspaced account by the Captain's copy, given by himself to Sir Hugh Palliser, in which it only says: "The great Quantity of these sort of fish found here occasion'd my giving it the name of Stingray Harbour"! So it is hardly correct to say, "It is, however, called _Botany Bay_ from the first in the Journals," any more than "No autograph Journal is, so far as is known, in existence." The fact of this "Corner's Log" becoming another ground for the publication of one, or many more, "_Cook's Endeavour_," can arise only from the supposition of its likeness to the so-called "_Queen's Log_" and "_Admiralty Log_." But these, admitted to be copies, cannot compare with the one personally sent by Cook, with his signature, to Palliser, or that sent to the British Museum as Cook's by his companion on the voyage, Sir Joseph Banks; or, far more, that in Cook's _own hand_ and _signature_, as seen in his own official letters. Yet this Harbour was placed on a French map, dating from the reign of our Henry VIII, as _Baie des Herbages_. Geographers have not been the most reticent upon the singularity and apparent after-thought of the name _Botany Bay_. It was hardly to be expected that Cook, though a skilled draftsman and interested in charts, would trouble himself about old _Mappemondes_, dealing with localities that were scarcely likely to come in his way, or, at any rate, until his appointment to observe the Transit of Venus in the Northern Pacific; yet he was not ignorant of what French navigators had done. In the British Museum one may see his translation of a French Voyage from Havre up the St. Lawrence. This copy is dated 1755. He may, therefore, be credited with the knowledge of French Mappemondes before the Fronde Civil Wars; in which charts, parts, at least, of Australia were delineated, and of dates anterior to Dutch movements. The _Gazette Nationale_ of February 11, 1807, discusses the question as to the possibility of Cook making acquaintance of a celebrated map in London, before the _Endeavour_ sailed in August, 1768. That wonderful and precious _Dauphin Mappemonde_, which I have seen at the Museum, dating from 1542, might not have been known to non-scientific Englishmen, but found a home at last in our Museum. Was Dr. Solander, Cook's botanical fellow-voyager, curator at the Museum when it arrived there? Were he or his friend Banks aware of its existence, or only learnt of it after their return? On that Map the _whole_ eastern coast of New Holland, afterwards known as New South Wales, is laid down distinctly.