1743–1820 English naturalistwith Captain Cook on the Endeavour voyage to Australia, later President of the Royal Society of London.
Keywords: geographical exploration; australia; botany
Banks, Joseph
Janet Browne, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002354
| Further Reading | |
| book Beaglehole JC (1962) The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768–1771, 2 vols. Sydney: Public Library of NSW and Angus & Robertson. | |
| book Carter HB (1988) Sir Joseph Banks. London: British Museum (Natural History). | |
| book Dawson WR (ed.) (1958) The Banks Letters. A Calendar of the Manuscript Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum, the British Museum (Natural History) and other collections in Great Britain. London: British Museum (Natural History). | |
| book Dawson WR (ed.) (1962–1965) Supplementary Letters Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 3, parts 2–3. | |
| book Gascoigne J (1998) Science in the Service of Empire. Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
