Short description:
Including the following collections: 'Drawings relating to Captain Cook's Second Voyage' - A selection of drawings of Tahiti and the Pacific made during Captain Cook's second voyage by artists such as William Hodges and Henry Roberts; and 'Naturalists Companion by Kenelm Digby' - An illustrated album compiled by a young Irish boy in about 1815 as a record of museums and menageries in Dublin at the time. The album, which includes a miscellany of items from all over the world, also illustrates Australian fauna and Pacific artefacts.