It is, unquestionably, worthy of a nation - a great nation - to send out travellers for the purpose of increasing our knowledge of distant and unexplored regions, and to make us acquainted with the plants and animals inhabiting them, and even to make great sacrifices in fitting out expeditions for these important objects.

In: John Gardner, Familiar Letters on Chemistry, Second Series, Letter I (p. 3), Taylor & Walton. 1844