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Notes on early botanical publication of australian species, including sources, illustrations and our cast of players. Reference will be made to the first publications and any inconsistencies arising. The task of including the fashion for antipodean botany, particuarly relating to viability in english gardening, and the introduction of books on Natural History for a general readership.

First publication
The following notes use the text, A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland, as a starting point for research into this topic. This was produced in four parts, between 1793 and 1795, by botanist, James E. Smith and the natural scientist and illustrator, James Sowebry.

People
Smith and Sowebry were to author the project, but as with all such ventures, other figures played parts in bringing the material. The authors were to go on to produce the mammoth tome, English Botany, in 1790. Other names linked by autors to this project are:
 * James Edward Smith
 * James Sowerby
 * George Shaw. Produced a two-part work Zoology and Botany of New Holland, with Smith
 * Two plates on a botanical subject are produced. Sowebry?


 * John White
 * George Raper?
 * Joseph Banks Visited Sowerby.
 * Extras and cameos to be cast or recalled

Publications

 * A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland
 * 1793?
 * The work was issued in four parts beginning in 1793 and finishing in 1795. Later parts issued could include updated information, the society could inform them of this. However, publication could have been 1793 for them all, nu?


 * Zoology and Botany of New Holland
 * 1793? Publication, avail., parts, sources, contents?


 * Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London (Linn. Trans. Vol. II)
 * 1793? Publication, avail., aust bot. contents?