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100 1 Banks, Joseph,|d1743-1820.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities
/names/n50036748
240 10 Correspondence.|kSelections|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/names/n99262847
245 14 The letters of Sir Joseph Banks :|ba selection, 1768-1820
/|cedited by Neil Chambers ; foreword by David Mabberley ;
introduction by Harold Carter.
264 1 London :|bImperial College Press ;|aRiver Edge, NJ :
|bDistributed in the USA by World Scientific Pub.,|c[2000]
264 4 |c©2000
300 1 online resource (xliii, 420 pages) :|billustrations,
maps
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504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 The letters -- Appendix: maps -- Select reading -- Theses
-- Biographical index of recipients -- General index.
520 "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 Society, a position he
held for over 41 years -- the longest anyone has served in
that capacity. As President he fostered enlightened
relations between scientists across Europe throughout a
period of conflict and turbulent change. He was also
Special Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew,
which flourished under his control, becoming greater than
any other. Voyages of discovery were mounted with his help
to explore new lands, to obtain and move plants from one
part of the world to another, and to further British
interests abroad. He was also an influential privy
councillor, and an advisor to George III and successive
governments. Banks was at the scientific and social centre
of Georgian life for more than five decades. As such he
developed a global network of correspondence, using
letters to further knowledge, and ultimately to shape
events in the cause of empire. He suggested the
possibility of establishing colonies on the east coast of
Australia, and then he actively supported them for the
remainder of his life. He has therefore been regarded by
some as the 'Father of Australia'. Furthermore, in the
Napoleonic Wars he acted to save the population of Iceland
when its trade was seized by the British. His views could
hardly be avoided on matters of botany or horticulture,
drainage or agriculture, on coinage, exploration or
science in general. Yet he was a warm, authoritative
writer with a direct, flowing prose style. His letters
make fascinating reading for their variety, as well as the
insight into his public and private life they provide.
This selection is made from the remaining 6,000 letters
Banks wrote, and will introduce many readers to a deeply
impressive figure, who is rapidly being recognized as one
of the great men of his age. More details about the Sir
Joseph Banks Archive Project can be found at http://
www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/banks/."
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