A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook - With an Account of His Life, During the Previous and Intervening Periods #222144

But my acknowledgments are, above all, due to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, for the interest he has taken in the present publication. It was in consequence of his advice that it was given to the world in the form which it now bears; and his assistance has been invariable through every part of the undertaking. To him the inspection of the whole has been submitted, and to him it is owing that the work is, in many respects, far more complete than it would otherwise have been. The exertions of zeal and friendship I have been so.