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Joseph Banks
This biography of Sir Joseph Banks, botanist, explorer, President of the Royal Society and one of Australia's founding fathers, draws on much hitherto unpublished material. He emerges here as a warm-hearted enthusiast whose legacy survives in the development of the Australian continent.
Sir Joseph Banks
"The papers published in this volume are edited transcripts of those presented at the conference "Sir Joseph Banks: a Global Perspective" held at The Royal Society on 22 and 23 April 1993. Motivation to organize the conference arose from the perceived need to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) by The Royal Society, The Natural History Museum, the Banks Archive Project, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Linnean Society of London, the Royal Horticultural Society, the Royal Institution and the Society for the History of Natural History." --Introduction.
Letters Of Sir Joseph Banks, The, A Selection, 1768-1820
Sir Joseph Banks was man of science, of affairs, and of letters. He circumnavigated the globe with Lieutenant James Cook on H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771, taking with him a team of naturalists, illustrators and assistants at a personal cost of £10,000. Together they made unprecedented collections of flora and fauna in many of the places H.M.S. Endeavour visited. Banks also led the first British scientific expedition to Iceland in 1772. Later, he settled in London, and assembled an enormous library and herbarium at 32 Soho Square. His collections were remarkable both for their size and for the unique material from the Pacific they contained. In 1778, Banks was elected President of the Royal So...
The Life of Sir Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), as a naturalist, accompanied Captain James Cook on expeditions to Australia and Tahiti, where he cataloged new species of plants and animals. He subsidized botanists and explorers all over the world; his natural history collections were at the service of everybody; he made Kew Gardens the botanical Mecca. As an explorer, he helped chart sea passages along the coast of Canada to the Arctic. It was Banks who inspired the famous adventure of Captain Bligh for transplanting the breadfruit, and ultimately made it successful. He was President of The Royal Society, and a friend of King George III.
The Life of Sir Joseph Banks
This 1911 biography reveals the extraordinary influence of the wealthy botanist Banks on eighteenth-century science, exploration and society.
Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment
A biography of scientific thinker Joseph Banks, placing his work in the context of eighteenth-century Britain.
Sir Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks life devoted to science, his voyages to Newfoundland and Labrador and with Captain Cook on the Endeavour. President of the Royal Society for 42 years.
