Excursions in and about Newfoundland during the Years 1839 and 1840 - Volume 2

Joseph Beete Jukes (1811–1869) was a geologist who studied at Cambridge under the famous Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873) and eventually became a prominent member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. In 1839 after many field expeditions in England he was appointed to a survey of Newfoundland a place about which he had until then been in ''utter ignorance''. The explorers failed to find the hoped-for mineral wealth they had been sent to prospect for and returned to Britain. In 1841 Jukes joined the H.M.S. Fly as a naturalist for an upcoming expedition to chart the coasts of Australia and New Guinea. The Fly set sail for the Pacific in 1842 the year in which this two-volume account of Jukes'' Newfoundland experiences was published. Volume 2 focuses mainly on Jukes'' scientific observations and includes descriptions of the island''s natural history geography and geology.