Important contemporary printed notice of the success of Captain William Bligh's successful second expedition for bread-fruit in the Providence. Any printed material relating to the second breadfruit voyage is scarce, as Bligh had largely fallen out of favour with the London establishment by this time (Bligh's own planned narrative of the Providence voyage was never published).

Important contemporary printed notice of the success of Captain William Bligh's successful second expedition for bread-fruit in the Providence. Any printed material relating to the second breadfruit voyage is scarce, as Bligh had largely fallen out of favour with the London establishment by this time (Bligh's own planned narrative of the Providence voyage was never published).
The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce had for some years offered a gold medal to whoever first transported live breadfruit trees to the Caribbean colonies. Accordingly, news of Bligh's successful second expedition transporting breadfruit to St. Helena, the West Indies and Jamaica attracted the keen attention of the Society's patrons. This issue of the Transactions publishes notices from officials in all three destinations, listing the number of breadfruit trees (and their state of health) alongside other exotic species from Timor and further afield. Overall praise for Bligh is effusive from those receiving the plants; indeed, the Secretary at St. Helena wrote of the 'inexpressible degree of wonder and delight, to contemplate a floating garden…transported in luxuriance from one extremity of the world to the other'
A grand list at the rear of this volume awards 'Captain William Bligh, R.N. for his having conveyed from the Islands of the South Seas, to the Islands of the West Indies, subject to the crown of Great Britain, six hundred and ninety plants of the Bread-fruit Tree in a growing state, the GOLD MEDAL.'