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Banks, Joseph (1743 - 1820)

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The following entries are from the History of Australian Science and Technology Bibliography.

Books

  • Banks, Joseph, The Journal of Joseph Banks in the Endeavour, Rigby, Adelaide, 1980. [ Details ]

  • Beasley, A. W., Fellowship of Three: the Lives and Association of John Hunter (1728-1793), The Surgeon; James Cook (1728-1820), The Navigator; and Joseph Banks (1743-1820), The Naturalist, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, 1993. [ Details ]

  • Carter, H. B., Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), British Museum (Natural History), London, 1988, 673 pp. [ Details ]

  • Carter, Harold Burnell, His Majesty's Spanish Flock, Sir Joseph Banks and the Merinos of George III of England, Angus & Robertson, London, 1964, 520 pp. [ Details ]

  • Fara, Patricia, Sex, Botany & Empire: the Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks, Icon books, Cambridge, 2003, 168 pp. [ Details ]

  • Frost, Alan, Sir Joseph Banks and the Transfer of Plants to and from the South Pacific, 1786-1798, Gaston Renard, Melbourne, 1993. [ Details ]

  • Gascoigne, John, Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994, 336 pp. [ Details ]

  • Lyte, Charles, Sir Joseph Banks: 18th Century Explorer, Botanist and Entrepreneur, Reed, Sydney, 1980. [ Details ]

  • O'Brian, Patrick, Joseph Banks: a Life, Collins Harvill, London, 1987, 320 pp. [ Details ]

Book Chapters

  • Gascoigne, John, 'The Scientis as Patron and Patristic Symbol: the Changing Reputation of Sir Joseph Banks', in Michael Shortland and Richard Yeo (eds), Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 243-265. [ Details ]

  • Gascoigne, John, 'Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. [ Details ]

  • Gilbert, L. A., 'Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820)', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1966, pp. 52-53. (Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010051b.htm) [ Details ]

Conference Papers

  • Dunphy, Jocelyn, 'Science, Authority and Enlightenment: Sir Joseph Banks' Role in the Development of Australian Society', in Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Congress, Canberra, 1984. [ Details ]

Edited Books

  • Brunton, Paul (ed.), The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks: the Australian Journey, Angus & Robertson in Association with the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998. [ Details ]

  • Carter, Harold Burnell (ed.), The Sheep and Wool Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, Library Council of New South Wales, Sydney, 1979, 641 pp. [ Details ]

Journal Articles

  • Branagan, D. F., 'History of Science in Australia. Pt. 5. Sir Joseph and the botanists', Scan, vol. 1, no. 5, 1968, pp. 17-22. [ Details ]

  • Francis, J., 'Sir Joseph Banks, Architect of Science and Empire', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, vol. 83, no. 1, 1972, pp. 1-19. [ Details ]

  • Maiden, J.H., 'Records of Australian Botanists - (a) General, (b) New South Wales', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. xlii, 1908, pp. 60-132. [ Details ]

  • Orchiston, Wayne, 'Cook, Banks and the Gregorian Telescope in The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, Tongarewa', Journal of the Antique Telescope Society, vol. 18, no. 1999, 1999, pp. 4-9. [ Details ]

  • Salkin, A. I., 'Short History of the Discovery and Naming of Banksias in Eastern Australia: Part 1, Banks and Solander', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 98, no. 2, 1981, pp. 69-71. [ Details ]

  • Stearn, W. T., 'Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) and Australian Botany', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 2, no. 4, 1974, pp. 7-24. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9740240007.htm) [ Details ]

See also
  • Endersby, Jim, 'A Garden Enclosed: Botanical Barter in Sydney, 1818-38', British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 33, 2000, pp. 313-334. [ Details ]

  • Steven, Margaret, First Impressions. The British Discovery of Australia, British Museum (Natural History), London, 1988, 96 pp. [ Details ]


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