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The Sir Joseph Banks Centre is located in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, housed in a Grade II listed building, which was recently restored by the Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire to celebrate Banks's life. Horncastle is located a few miles from Banks's Revesby estate and the naturalist was the town's lord of the manor.
Joseph Banks Rhine (September 29, 1895 – February 20, 1980), usually known as J. B. Rhine, was an American botanist who founded parapsychology as a branch of psychology, founding the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, and the Parapsychological Association.
Jos. A. Bank [a] is an American retailer of men's furnishings specializing in suits.Established in 1905, by Charles Bank and Joseph Alfred Bank, [1] it operates over 180 retail locations and three distribution centers (Atlanta, Houston, and Jenkins).
The cave was brought to the attention of the English-speaking world by 18th-century naturalist Sir Joseph Banks in 1772. [6] [7] It became known as Fingal's Cave after the eponymous hero of an epic poem by 18th century Scots poet-historian James Macpherson.
For the Endeavour voyage with James Cook, Joseph Banks brought a party of eight people, [4] that included the two artists Sydney Parkinson for botanical drawings and Alexander Buchan as landscape and figure artist. [24] Work by both artists was later engraved for publication in the Account, but with some changes. Buchan's sketches were made to ...
The Banks Baronetcy, of Revesby Abbey in the County of Lincoln, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 24 March 1781 for the naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences, Joseph Banks. The title became extinct on his death in 1820.
Organized by a dozen titled members of London's upper-class establishment and led by Sir Joseph Banks, the African Association felt that it was the great failing of the Age of Enlightenment that, in a time when men could sail around the world, the geography of Africa remained almost entirely uncharted (leading to the now-offensive nickname, the ...
The Sir Joseph Banks Conservatory is a 5,000-square-foot (460 m 2) [1] tropical house, originally constructed in 1989 [2] within The Lawn complex in Lincoln. [2] [3] It was themed with plants and reminiscent of the voyages of its namesake, Sir Joseph Banks, the British naturalist and botanist from London who, as long-time president of the Royal Society, became known for his promotion of science.