The HMS Plover under Commander Thomas Moore was sent from England to join the HMS Herald under Henry Kellett which was already in the Pacific.
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On the recommendation of Sir WJ Hooker, he was appointed naturalist on the voyage of exploration of the American west coast and Pacific by Henry Kellett on HMS Herald, 1847–1851, along with the naturalists Thomas Edmondston, and John Goodridge.