16. A microfilm copy of Robert Brown's handwritten diary is held at the National Herbarium, Black Mountain, Canberra. The section dealing with the stay on Sweers Island (16-30 November 1802) was read and copied by P. Saenger on 14 September 1990, and later transcribed. Edwards, P.I. (ed.), 'The journal of Peter Goode, gardener, on Matthew Flinders' voyage to Terra Australis, 1801-03', Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History Historical Series, vol. 9, 1981, pp. 1-213.

17. Flinders, op. cit. vol. 2, p. 228.

18. ibid vol. 2, p. 229.

19. ibid vol. 2, p. 230.

20. A holothurian, also known as sea-slug, sea-cucumber and beche-de-mer.