The letters of Sir Joseph Banks : a selection, 1768-1820 / edited by Neil Chambers ; foreword by David Mabberley ; introduction by Harold Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820.

Contributor:

Chambers, Neil.

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naturalists--Great Britain--Correspondence.

Naturalists.

Scientists--Great Britain--Biography.

Scientists.

Scientists--Great Britain--Correspondence.

Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820--Correspondence.

Banks, Joseph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press ; River Edge, NJ : Distributed in the USA by World Scientific Pub., c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 un

Contents:

Brief Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Editorial Principles; Acknowledgements; Institutions and Staff; Individuals; References and Abbreviations for Notes to the Letters; List of Illustrations; Appendix Contents: Maps; List of Letters; The Letters; 1768 To William Philip Perrin F.R.S.; 1768 To The Portuguese Viceroy of Brazil, Don Antonio Rolim de Moura, Conde d'Azambuja; 1768 To William Philip Perrin F.R.S.; 1768 To James Douglas P.R.S., 14th Earl of Morton; 1771 To Thomas Pennant F.R.S.; 1771 To the Comte de Lauraguais

1772 To John Montagu F.R.S., 4th Earl of Sandwich, and 1st Lord of the Admiralty1773 To Thomas Falconer; 1773 To Sarah Sophia Banks; 1773 To Constantine John Phipps F.R.S., 2nd Baron Mulgrave; 1773 To Thomas Falconer; 1778 To Carl von Linne the younger; 1780 To Dr. Benjamin Franklin F.R.S.; 1782 To Sir William Hamilton F.R.S., Ambassador at the Court of Naples; 1782 To Dr. Charles Blagden F.R.S.; 1783 To Dr. Benjamin Franklin F.R.S.; 1783 To Dr. Charles Blagden F.R.S.; 1783 To Dr. Benjamin Franklin F.R.S.; 1783 To Matthew Boulton F.R.S.; 1783 To Dr. Charles Blagden F.R.S.

1784 To Dr. Charles Blagden F.R.S.1784 To Johann Heinrich Merck; 1784 To Johan Alstromer F.R.S.; 1787 To an Unknown Correspondent; 1787 [To Charles Jenkinson, 1st Baron Hawkesbury, and 1st Earl of Liverpool]; 1787 To Sir George Yonge, F.R.S., Secretary for War; 1787 To Sir William Hamilton F.R.S., Ambassador at the Court of Naples; 1787 To Sir George Yonge, F.R.S., Secretary for War; 1787 To James Hutchinson, Secretary of the American Philosophical Society; 1788 To Charles Louis L'Heritier de Brutelle F.R.S.; 1788 To Antoine Laurent de Jussieu F.R.S.; 1788 To John Lloyd F.R.S.

1788 To Thomas March1788 To an Unknown Correspondent; 1788 To William Devaynes; 1789 [To Dr. James Lind F.R.S.]; 1789 To Dr. Charles Blagden F.R.S.; 1790 To William Pitt the younger, Prime Minister; 1790 To William Pitt the younger, Prime Minister; 1790 To Dr. Joseph Priestley F.R.S.; 1791 To Archibald Menzies; 1791 To Edmund Malone; 1791 To James Wiles; 1792 To Sir George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney; 1792 To Josiah Wedgwood F.R.S.; 1792 To Jean Florimond Boudon de Saint-Amans (alias Amand); 1792 To Sir George Leonard Staunton F.R.S.; 1792 To an Unknown Correspondent

1792 To Count Alessandro Volta F.R.S.1793 To William Windham M.P.; 1793 To Sir John Sinclair F.R.S.; 1793 To William Pitt the younger, Prime Minister; 1793 To Professor Johann Friedrich Blumenbach F.R.S.; 1794 To an Unknown Correspondent; 1794 To Evan Nepean F.R.S.; 1794 To William Pitt the younger, Prime Minister; 1795 To Sir Henry Hawley; 1795 To Sir James Bland Burges; 1796 To Sir Henry Hawley; 1796 To Jaques Julien Houttou de La Billardiere; 1796 To William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; 1796 To Major William Price

1796 To John King, Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781848160262

1848160267