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unusual facts about Sir Joseph Banks



Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond

The island was visited in 1772 by Sir Joseph Banks, who remarked that the stone was a coarse kind of basalt, very much resembling the Giant's Causeway in Ireland as noted in (Pennant's Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides).

Division of Banks

The division was created in 1949 and is named for Sir Joseph Banks, the British scientist who accompanied James Cook on his voyage to Australia in 1770.

Franz Bauer

There Jacquin the younger introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks, who, recognizing his extraordinary talent, secured him a position as first botanical illustrator at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Museum, at an annual salary of £300.

Henry Jerome de Salis

Harriet Blosset was the girl who in 1768 had been led to believe by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) that he would marry her on his return from his journey with Cook on the Endeavour.

HMAS Banks

She was named in honour of Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist aboard HM Bark Endeavour during the discovery of the eastern coast of Australia in 1770.

The Age of Wonder

In this book, Holmes focuses particularly on the work of Sir Joseph Banks, William Herschel and Humphry Davy.


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Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond

Faujas' Voyage en Angleterre, en Écosse et aux Îles Hébrides (1797) contains anecdotes about Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. John Whitehurst, including an amusing account of The Dinner of an Academic Club (the Royal Society), which was translated into English (2 vols., 1799).

William Weston Young

They were not successful, but one member of the committee, a porcelain enthusiast; Sir Joseph Banks, suggested to his friend and ceramicist Lewis Weston Dillwyn of the Cambrian Pottery of Swansea, Glamorganshire, should make an inspection and report on the matter.