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	Joseph Banks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in London to the wealthy William and Sarah (Bates) Banks, Joseph Banks was at Eton with Constantine John Phipps.
		During much of this time, Banks was an informal adviser to King George III of the United Kingdom on the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, a position that was formalized in 1797.
		Finally, Banks was a major financial supporter of William Smith in his decade-long efforts to create a geological map of England, the first geological map of an entire country in history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Banks (871 words)

	Joseph Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Joseph Banks ( February 13, 1743 - June 19, 1820) was the British naturalist and botanist on Cook 's first great voyage ( 1768 - 1771) and some 75 species bear Bank's name.
		Born in London to a wealthy family, Joseph Banks acquired a passion for botany while at Oxford University in the early 1760s ; it was an exciting time for the field.
		During much of this time, Banks was an informal adviser to King George III of the United Kingdom on Kew Gardens, a position that was formalized in 1797.
	www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/jo/joseph_banks.html (692 words)

	Banks Sir Joseph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Joseph Banks is known as the "The Father of Australia" from his interest in, and his continued promotion of, the colony of New South Wales.
		Banks was born in the London borough of Westminster on the 13 February 1743 (O.S.) and was the wealthy young squire of Revesby in Lincolnshire.
		Sir Joseph Banks remained a Freemason throughout his life and was a member of Lodge Witham No 297 EC at the time of his death on the 19 June 1820.
	www.uglnsw.freemasonry.org.au /MasonicResearch/banks_1.html (258 words)

	The Life and Works of Sir Joseph Banks
		Sir Joseph Banks was born in 1743, and was educated at Harrow, Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
		Two weeks after his return, Banks was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Society, and, when the Society proposed an expedition to observe the Transit of Venus, Banks put himself forward as a botanist and collector, financing his own team of scientists and assistants.
		Banks had embarked on an unprecedented voyage of botanical and ethnographic investigation.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /hosted_sites/banks/banks.html (840 words)

	Sir Joseph Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Joseph Banks ( February 13, 1743 - June 19, 1820) was theBritish naturalist and botanist on Cook 's first great voyage ( 1768 - 1771) and some 75 species bear Banks' name.
		Born in London to a wealthy family, Joseph Banks acquired a passion for botany whileat Oxford University in the early 1760s ; it was an exciting time for the field.
		Finally, Banks was a major financial supporter of William Smith in his decade-long efforts to create a geological map of England, the firstgeological map of an entire country in history.
	www.therfcc.org /sir-joseph-banks-185486.html (730 words)

	Lincolnshire Heritage on Sir Joseph Banks's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Joseph Banks was born in February 1743.
		Banks would have recognised the value of the fens as a natural resource and seen their potential for the development of new methods of farming.
		Banks' estate, Revesby, itself is an impressive place, though the house you see today is not the one Banks occupied, and is said to be in very poor repair.
	www.lincsheritage.org /news/joseph_banks.html (684 words)

	BBC - History - Sir Joseph Banks (1743 - 1820)
		Banks was interested in plants that could be used for practical purposes and be introduced into other countries for possible commercial use.
		In 1781 Banks was made a baronet, and in 1795 received the order of Knight Commander of the Bath; two years later he was admitted to the Privy Council.
		In 1805 Banks was the first to suggest the identity of the wheat rust and barberry fungus.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/banks_sir_joseph.shtml (340 words)

	SIR JOSEPH BANKS - LoveToKnow Article on SIR JOSEPH BANKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shortly after his return, Captain Cook was sent by the government to observe the transit of Venus in the Pacific Ocean, and Banks, through the influence of his friend Lord Sandwich, obtained leave to join the expedition in the Endeavour, which was fitted out at his own expense.
		Banks was equally anxious to join Cooks second expeditioft and expended large sums in engaging assistants and furnishing the necessary equipment; but circumstances obliged him to relinquish his purpose.
		In 1778 Banks succeeded Sir John Pringle as president of the Royal Society, of which he had been a fellow from 1766, and held the office until his death.
	69.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BANKS_SIR_JOSEPH.htm (421 words)

	Joseph Banks - AskTheBrain.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Joseph Banks became unofficial director and the subsequent fame of the botanic gardens is largely due to him.
		Joseph that are going to Oregon and California but thousands of them it is a sight to see the tents and wagons on the banks of the river and through the country they are as thick as camp meeting tents 20 or 30 miles and some say for 50 miles.
		Joseph Banks Rhine introduced a statistical approach to the very new study of parapsychology, orthodox scientists were able at least to express their willingness to consider the paranormalists' claims.
	www.askthebrain.com /bank_joseph-.html (395 words)

	Sir Joseph Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Papers of Sir Joseph Banks Contains the journal of Sir Joseph Banks on the voyage of the HMS Endeavor, August 1768-July 1771.
		Joseph in Egypt Essay arguing that the Egyptian vizier Imhotep and the Biblical figure Joseph were the same man.
		Joseph Area Map Shows where St. Joseph is in relation to St. Cloud and surrounding communities.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Sir_Joseph_Banks.html (344 words)

	The Hunterian Museum: Joseph Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Joseph Banks was born 13th of February 1743 at London and died 1820 in London.
		During 1768 - 1771 Banks accompanied Captain Cook's expedition to the South Pacific, where he collected specimens of corals, shells, insects, and plants from the islands.
		Though he did not journey with Cook on the other voyages, he was still a key figure in the collation of the botanical material found on those voyages, and most of it came into his hands at some point.
	www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk /museum/cook/banks.html (121 words)

	Bellrock.org.uk : Misc : Sir Joseph Banks and Mutiny on the Bounty
		Bellrock.org.uk : Misc : Sir Joseph Banks and Mutiny on the Bounty
		Banks corresponded with the first four Governors of New South Wales who, while they reported officially to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, also reported privately and therefore more intimately and openly to Banks.
		It was Joseph Banks who proposed that William Bligh should command two voyages for the transportation of breadfruit and other plants - included the ill-fated voyage on the Bounty, which ended in the famous mutiny of April 1789.
	www.bellrock.org.uk /misc/misc_banks.htm (1898 words)

	Tattoos.Com Ezine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Banks was a wealthy young man with a taste for adventure.
		Banks so impressed the leading naturalists of his time that - at the age of 23 - he became the youngest member of the Royal Society.
		When Joseph Banks heard of the proposed voyage he was on fire with enthusiasm and energetically promoted himself for the position of naturalist.
	www.tattoos.com /jane/steve/banks.htm (419 words)

	Rocky Road: Sir Joseph Banks
		As a boy, Joseph Banks rubbed his face with toads to dispel the myth that they caused warts.
		Wealthy by birth, Banks was not a diligent student, yet he possessed a passion for learning that lasted his entire life.
		Banks returned to England a celebrity, something that apparently went to his head.
	www.strangescience.net /banks.htm (597 words)

	The Scientific Letters of Sir Joseph Banks
		The scientific letters of Sir Joseph Banks are an unprecedented and continuous record of fifty years of technological and intellectual development.
		Banks was unofficial director of the Royal Gardens at Kew from 1773, which flourished under his control.
		On to the The Iceland Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1772-1820.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /hosted_sites/banks/scientific_letters.htm (446 words)

	THE LETTERS OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS
		Sir Joseph Banks was man of science, of affairs, and of letters.
		Banks was at the scientific and social centre of Georgian life for more than five decades.
		This selection is made from the remaining 6,000 letters Banks wrote, and will introduce many readers to a deeply impressive figure, who is rapidly being recognized as one of the great men of his age.
	www.icpress.co.uk /books/histsci/p178.html (579 words)

	Sir Joseph Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joseph Banks was interested plants which were economically useful and in their introduction into new countries.
		Banks must have been a very active and forceful man because he was accused by fellow scientists of being despotic in the use of his position.
		Joseph Banks's herbarium was considered one of the most important in existence; while his library, with its great collection of works on natural history, is now housed in the British Museum [see paragraph below].
	www.lincolnshire-web.co.uk /lincolnshire-illustrious/joseph_banks.htm (609 words)

	Papers of Sir Joseph Banks
		Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was the botanist who sailed with Captain James Cook on his first voyage of exploration into the Pacific region between 1768 and 1771.
		Banks was one of several scientists on the voyage that began a massive expansion in European knowledge about the Pacific region.
		The journal kept by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour (1768-1771) has been provided in transcription as well as in facsimile reproduction, but the other documents in the collection are provided in facsimile reproduction only.
	chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/r/58/whm.html (707 words)

	Sir Joseph Banks
		Banks, settled in England, was president of the Royal Society, the most prestigious scientific organization of the time.
		Joseph Banks was born in London on 13th February 1743.
		The voyage was noted especially for the discoveries of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and Banks took a great interest in the plant and animal life of the new continent, collecting many samples of plants and arranging for paintings of the local landscapes.
	www.home.gil.com.au /~tmacey/history/banks.html (794 words)

	Sir Joseph Banks - Natural History Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joseph Banks was a British explorer and naturalist, and one of the great men of his age.
		Born in 1743 to a wealthy family, Joseph Banks possessed a passion for botany that became apparent at a young age and lasted his entire life.
		Banks was also unofficial director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which flourished under his care to become one of the best botanical gardens in the world.
	www.nature.org.uk /nature-online/science-of-natural-history/biographies/joseph-banks/joseph-banks.html (797 words)

	Joseph Banks the Explorer - PlantExplorers.com™
		B orn into a life of privilege, Joseph Banks was the son of a wealthy Lincolnshire landowner, but managed to avoid the path that would seem to have been set before him.
		Joseph Banks, at the age of 25, supplied an estimated £10,000 of his own money to equip the expedition.
		Banks had decided that since 'The weather was vastly fine, like a sunshiny day in May, so that neither heat nor cold was troublesome to us' it was a perfect day for a short excursion inland.
	www.plantexplorers.com /Explorers/Biographies/Banks (1705 words)

	Joseph Banks the Experiment - PlantExplorers.com™
		Banks, with his considerable influence as the president of the Royal Society was soon able to rally sufficient funding for the successful completion of his experiment.
		The bottom of the hull was sheathed in copper, to prevent damage by tropical marine worms, while her decks were altered and her hold expanded for the hundreds of potted trees she was to carry.
		It is likely that Banks took the advice of David Nelson in selecting Lieutenant William Bligh to command the mission, as Nelson and Bligh were former mates from Cook's last voyage.
	www.plantexplorers.com /Explorers/Biographies/Banks/Experiment.htm (343 words)

	Joseph Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		[[Image Link]] Sir Joseph Banks ( February 13, 1743 - June 19, 1820) was the British naturalist and botanist on Cook 's first great voyage ( 1768 - 1771) and some 75 species bear Banks' name.
		This voyage went to Brazil and other parts of South America, Tahiti (where the transit of Venus was observed, the primary purpose of the mission), New Zealand, and finally to the east coast of Australia where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay near present-day Sydney and Cooktown in Queensland.
		O'Brian based his character Joseph Blaine on Banks (in the Aubrey–Maturin series; of novels).
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/joseph_banks (844 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Rhine Joseph Banks
		Rhine, Joseph Banks (1895-1980), American psychologist, born in Waterloo, Pennsylvania, and educated at the University of Chicago and Harvard and...
		Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820), British naturalist, who helped to establish botany as an academic discipline.
		Women are like banks, boy, breaking and entering is a serious business.
	encarta.msn.com /Rhine_Joseph_Banks.html (159 words)

	BANKS, Sir Joseph - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		Joseph Banks was born in London on 13 February 1743, the son of William Banks, of Revesby Hall, Lincolnshire, England, and his wife Sarah, nÃ©e Bate.
		Banks was elected president of the Royal Society in 1778 and, until his death 42 years later, continued in that office as the doyen of British science.
		Sir Joseph Banks's main significance in New Zealand's history attaches to his participation in the circumnavigation of the main islands of New Zealand by Cook in the Endeavour.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/B/BanksSirJoseph/en (1273 words)

	Joseph Banks - Horncastle Discovered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joseph Banks is remembered by most today as the botanist who sailed around the the world on the Endeavour in the 3 year voyage with Captain Cook.
		Though Joseph Banks maintained a house in London as well as Revesby Abbey he also had a substantial town house in Horncastle which still stands today.
		Another local landmark, Banovallum House, was built on land purchased form Banks and local legend has it that he personally planted the walnut tree that still stands there today.
	www.horncastlediscovered.com /joseph-banks.htm (315 words)

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