Letter received by Banks from Archibald Menzies, 6 February1794 (Series 61.20) - No. 0001

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Discovery Karakakooa [Kealakekua] Bay [Hawaii]

Feb 6th 1794

Sir Joseph

Inclosed you have a numerical list of a Box of seeds sent herewith in the Daedalus Store Ship by the way of Port Jackson for His Majesty's Gardens, duplicates of which I have reserved to be sent by the next conveyance.

My last letter to you, was from San Diego California, giving a short account of our progress & transactions to that period, and after leaving that port, we traced the coast to the Southward as far as the Latitude of thirty degrees North and found it in general very erroneously represented in the Spanish charts.

Nov 20 1795 [by different hand]