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Joseph Banks and the British Museum by Neil Chambers Pdf
Concentrating on the explorer and naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820), this book explores the early history of collections at the British Museum. Taking Banks' extraordinary career as its basis, it examines the changes that took place during a period of transition that led to collecting on an increasingly global scale.
Catalogue of the Natural History Drawings Commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771 Held in the British Museum (Natural History). by British Museum (Natural History),Joseph Banks,Judith Diment Pdf
The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks by Joseph Banks,Neil Chambers Pdf
Sir Joseph Banks was a great Georgian figure. He circumnavigated the world with Captain James Cook on the H.M.S. Endeavor (1768-1771). He took with him a team of naturalists, illustrators and assistants at a personal cost of pounds 10,000. They made unprecedented collections of flora and fauna in most of the places the H.M.S. Endeavor visited. Banks also led the first British scientific expedition to Iceland, in 1772. Later, he settled in London and assembled an enormous herbarium-cum-library. This was remarkable for its size and for the unique material gathered from the Pacific. Banks was elected President of the Royal Society in 1778, a position he held for 41 years -- the longest anyone has served in that capacity. He was also the Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, which flourished under his control and became greater than any other. He was also an influential privy councilor and advisor to George III and the government. Banks was therefore at the scientific and social centre ofGeorgian life for more than five decades of rapid change. Once established in this position, he developed an enormous, global network of correspondence, using letters to shape events, to further knowledge, and to build an empire. There was almost no aspect too insignificant for his attention: and on matters of importance, his opinion was frequently sought. He has been called the "Fathers of Australia" for his role in establishing and then actively supporting colonies on the continent he visited with Cook. On matters of trade or agriculture, botany or horticulture, exploration or navigation, coinage, drainage and science, his views could hardly be avoided. Yet, he was a warm, authoritativewriter, with a "roiling" prose style. His letters make interesting reading for their variety as well as their insight into both his public and private life. This selection is from the over 5,000 letters which he wrote, and will in
The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768-1771 by Joseph Banks Pdf
v.2; p.52-56; Near La Perouse - natives with canoes sighted, armed with long pikes & swords, body painting, landing party take lances, physical appearance; p.75; Repulse Bay - canoes with outriggers; p.91-97; Endeavour R. - Outrigger canoes, spears with throwers, bones through septum, small physique noted, body painting, ornaments; p.103; Framework of shelters on Lizard Is.; p.122-137; Bags of netting, physical appearance, nasal septum pierced, shells used as beads, hairs belts; foods - fish, turtle (method of capturing) vegetable foods, cooking, habitations, types of water buckets; shell fish hooks, firing of grass, weapons; shield (Sting-Rays Bay); canoes; (These pages summarize subjects from both areas); Word list (possibly Koko-Yimidir) of 38 words.
Jonathan C. H. King,British Museum. Department of Ethnography
Author : Jonathan C. H. King,British Museum. Department of Ethnography Publisher : London : Published for the Trustees of the British Musuem by British Museum Publications Page : 232 pages File Size : 52,9 Mb Release : 1981 Category : Nature ISBN : UOM:39015010479262
Artificial Curiosities from the Northwest Coast of America by Jonathan C. H. King,British Museum. Department of Ethnography Pdf
Description of the North American section of the Cook collection, and three further eighteenth-century accessions of Pacific North American artifacts. Catalogue discusses in detail, and illustrates 137 Aleut, Eskimo and Indian artefacts, most of which are from British Columbia and Alaska.
Catalogue of the Natural History Drawings Commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771 Held in the British Museum (Natural History).: Zoology by British Museum (Natural History) Pdf
Joseph Banks' Florilegium by Mel Gooding,David Mabberly Pdf
A compact edition of Joseph Banks’ extraordinary botanical engravings of flora discovered on Captain Cook’s first voyage. Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never been seen or studied by Europeans. On his return, Banks commissioned over 700 engravings. Known collectively as Banks’ Florilegium, they are some of the most precise and exquisite examples of botanical illustration ever created. The Florilegium was never published in Banks’ lifetime, and it was not until 1990 that a complete set in color was issued under the direction of the British Museum. It is from these prints that the new compact edition of Joseph Banks’ Florilegium is selected, as directed by David Mabberley, who has provided expert botanical commentaries. Art historian Mel Gooding sets the works in context while an afterword by Joe Studholme describes the history of modern printing. Joseph Banks’ Florilegium is not only a great work of science, but also a major achievement in collaborative Enlightenment art and a volume of outstanding beauty.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), as a naturalist, accompanied Captain James Cook on expeditions to Australia and Tahiti, where he cataloged new species of plants and animals. He subsidized botanists and explorers all over the world; his natural history collections were at the service of everybody; he made Kew Gardens the botanical Mecca. As an explorer, he helped chart sea passages along the coast of Canada to the Arctic. It was Banks who inspired the famous adventure of Captain Bligh for transplanting the breadfruit, and ultimately made it successful. He was President of The Royal Society, and a friend of King George III.
Catalogue of the Natural History Drawings Commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771 Held in the British Museum (Natural History).: Brazil, Java, Madeira, New Zealand, Society Islands and Tierra del Fuego by Anonim Pdf
Enlightening the British by Robert Geoffrey William Anderson Pdf
A collection of conference papers on the 'Enlightenment in Britain', this volume includes essays by leading scholars that throw new light on how the British Museum reacted to the great social, scientific and religious upheaval that characterised the Age of Englightenment.
