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The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks was a great Georgian figure. He circumnavigated the world with Captain James Cook on the H.M.S. Endeavor (1768-1771). He took with him a team of naturalists, illustrators and assistants at a personal cost of pounds 10,000. They made unprecedented collections of flora and fauna in most of the places the H.M.S. Endeavor visited. Banks also led the first British scientific expedition to Iceland, in 1772. Later, he settled in London and assembled an enormous herbarium-cum-library. This was remarkable for its size and for the unique material gathered from the Pacific. Banks was elected President of the Royal Society in 1778, a position he held for 41 years -- the longest anyone h...
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.
Typescript Articles and Clippings Regarding Conditions in the Far East Prior to the Outbreak of World War II
Included are reports from the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, State Department which relate to such topics as Hull-Hirota notes, economic relatiosn between Japan and United States, outbreak of hostilities between China and Japan, Amau Statement, a résumé of conditions 1939-1940, and the Japanese demarche in North China. Also mimeograph copy of Stanley Hornbeck's article "China and American Foreign Policy."
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.
