Research Catalog

Title

Sir Joseph Banks : a global perspective / editors, R.E.R. Banks ... [et al.] ; production editor S. Dickerson.

Publication

[Richmond, England] : Published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on behalf of the co-sponsors, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Banks, R. E. R.
• Royal Society (Great Britain)
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Description

ii, 235 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Subject

• Banks, Joseph
• Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 > Congresses
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• 1800-1899
• Societies, Scientific > history
• History, 19th Century
• Botany > history
• Academies and Institutes > history
• Botany
• Botany > History > 19th Century > Congresses
• Botany > Societies, etc. > 19th century > Congresses
• Botany > Congresses
• Botany > Societies, etc. > History > 19th century > Congresses
• Botany > Festschrift
• Academies and Institutes > History > Festschrift
• Botany > History > Festschrift
• History, 19th Century > Festschrift
• Societies, Scientific > History > Festschrift

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Festschrift
• Conference papers and proceedings
• History
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Festschriften.

Note

• "The conference at which these papers were originally presented was co-sponsored by the Royal Society, The Natural History Museum, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Linnean Society of London, the Society for the History of Natural History, and the Banks Archive Project"--T.p. verso.
• Conference held at the Royal Society, Apr. 22-23, 1993.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sir Joseph Banks and the Royal Society / H. B. Carter -- Anglo-Continental scientific relation c. 1780-1820, with special reference to the correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks / M. Crosland -- The Swedish connection / B. Jonsell -- Sir Joseph Banks and the exploration of Iceland / A. Agnarsdottir -- Patronage and problems : Banks and the earth sciences / H. S. Torrens -- The application of enlightened philosophy : Banks and the physical sciences / D. M. Knight -- Sir Joseph Banks and the world of art in Great Britain / R. Joppien -- The transformation of the Royal Gardens at Kew / R. G.C. Desmond -- The promotion of horticulture / B. Elliott -- The planting of New South Wales : Sir Joseph Banks and the creation of an Antipodean Europe / A. Frost -- Banks and New World science / W. Stanton -- Sir Joseph Banks-- an Asian policy? / G. Métailié -- Banks and African exploration / D. Middleton -- "The common center of we discoverers" : Sir Joseph Banks, exploration and Empire in the late 18th century / G. Williams -- Sir Joseph Banks and the Lincolnshire influence / D.N. Robinson -- Sir Joseph Banks and Boston / E.R. Andrew -- Sir Joseph Banks and Aimé Bonpland / S. Bell -- Sir Joseph Banks and the Chelsea Physic Garden / S. Minter -- Sir Joseph Banks's collection of insects / M. Fitton & S. Shute -- Overton : the Derbyshire estate of Sir Joseph Banks / S.R. Band.

ISBN

0947643613

LCCN

^^^95128737^

OCLC

• 30758649
• SCSB-12017797

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library