> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 535](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120666) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1779-1) LSID 1779-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7324) QID Q7324 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Cook, James (1728-1779), British explorer and circumnavigator. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Cook* \[standard form in IPNI: *Cook*\] #### Collections Cook himself did not collect specimens. For the collections from his voyages, see: *First* voyage (Endeavour, 1768-1771): J. Banks & D. Solander; *Second* voyage (Resolution, Adventure, 1772-1775), J. R. Forster & J. G. A. Forster; *Third* voyage (Resolution, Discovery, 1776-1780), W. Anderson & D. Nelson. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 58; Barnhart 1: 376; BB p. 71; BM 1: 377-378, 6: 229; Bossert p. 82; Dawson p. 229; DNB 12: 66; Jackson p. 534 \[index\]; Kew 1: 607-608; NI 74. - Martin, J. Roy. New Zealand Inst. Hort. 1(4): 159-162. 1969. - Murray-Oliver, Captain Cook's artists in the Pacific 1769-1779, New Zealand 1969. - Skelton, Captain James Cook after two hundred years. London (Brit. Mus.) 1969. - Stearn, Notes Rec. Roy. Soc. London 24(1): 64-90. 1969. - Whitehead, Austr. Nat. Hist. 16(8): 242-245. 1969. - Badger, Captain Cook, Navigator and Scientist, London, New York. s.d. 143 p. (1970?). - François, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 82: v-xxvi. 1970 (1971). - Greenhill, James Cook, the opening of the Pacific. London 1970. - Grenfell Price and White, James Cook, his early life and the Endeavour Voyage, Canberra 1970 (40 p., catal. exhibit Nat. Library). - Beaglehole, DSB 3: 396-397, 1971. - Fraser, Bull. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 8: 1-141. 1971. - Megaw, ed., Employed as a discoverer, Sydney (A. H. & A. W. Reed) 1971, 142 p. - Villiers, Natl. Geogr. Mag. 140(3): 297-345. 1971. - Ewan, Bull. Pacific bot. Gard. 4(4): 65-75. 1974. #### Note Full information to 1970 on all literature connected with Cook, his travels, his associates and the Publication of the results will be found in: Beddie, Bibliography of Captain James Cook, ed. 2. Sydney 1970. The most authoritative biography is J. C. Beaglehole, The Life of Captain James Cook, Stanford 1974, x, 760 p. #### Journals For the older editions see Beddie's *Bibliography of Captain James Cook*. One of the most recent and authoritative annotated editions is that of J. C. Beaglehole, *The Journals of Captain James Cook*, Published by the Hakluyt Society, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1955-1968, see Beddie no. 227. #### Eponymy *Cookia* Sonnerat (1782). – *Note.Cookeina* O. Kuntze (1891) and *Cookella* P. A. Saccardo (1878) are dedicated to Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914), q.v. #### Handwriting Captain Cook in the South Seas. Two letters written to Captain John Walker. Sydney 1970, p. 7-17. #### Postage stamps Aitutaki 30 c (1973), New Caledonia 10 f. (1974).