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Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, FRS (24 February [O.S. 13 February] 1743 – 19 June 1820 [1]) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences. [ 2 ] Banks made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador .
Portrait of Joseph Banks is a portrait painting by the British artist Joshua Reynolds of the botanist and President of the Royal Society Joseph Banks. Banks had gained fame for his part in the explorer James Cook's First Voyage. Although it was intended he should also go on the Second Voyage this fell through due to the excessive demands of ...
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.
Banks' Florilegium is a collection of copperplate engravings of plants collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander while they accompanied Captain James Cook on his first voyage around the world between 1768 and 1771. They collected plants in Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia and Java
Francis Masson (1741–1805) was a Scottish botanist and gardener, and Kew Gardens’ first plant hunter; sent from Kew by the newly appointed Sir Joseph Banks he sailed with James Cook on HMS Resolution to South Africa, landing in October 1772. He stayed until 1775 and sent back to England over 500 plant species.
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.
Sir James Burrow: Legal reporter 18 1768–1772: James West: Politician and antiquarian: 19 1772–1772: Sir James Burrow: Legal reporter 20 1772–1778: Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet: Physician 21 1778–1820: Sir Joseph Banks: Naturalist and botanist: 22 1820-1820: William Hyde Wollaston: Chemist: 23 1820–1827: Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet ...
Sir Joseph Banks worked with the head gardener and curator John Fairbairn during the 1780–1814 period. Fairbairn specialized in growing and cultivating plants from around the world. Parts of the garden have been lost to road development – the river bank during 1874 construction of the Chelsea Embankment on the north bank of the River Thames ...