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During your continuance on the Service abovementd you are, by all proper opportunities to send to our Secretary for our information, accounts of your Proceedings, & Copies of the Surveys & Drawings which you shall have made, & such Papers as the Naturalist & the Painters employed on board may think proper to send home: And upon your arrival in England you are immediately to repair to this Office in order to lay before us a full account of your Proceedings in the whole course of your Voyage; taking care before you leave the Sloop, to demand from the Officers & Petty Officers the Log Books & Journals which they may have kept, & such Drawings & Charts as they may have taken, & to Seal them up for our inspection.
And whereas you have been furnished with a Plant Cabin for the purpose of depositing therein such Plants, Trees, Shrubs &c as may be collected during the Survey abovementioned, you are, when you arrive at Sydney Cove to cause the sd. Plant Cabin to be fitted up by the Carpenter on the Quarter Deck of the Sloop you command according to the intention of its construction, & you are to cause Boxes for containing Earth to be made & placed therein, in the same manner as now done in the Plant Cabin carried out by the Porpoise Storeship, which Plant Cabin you will find at Sydney Cove.