Combining a passion for botanical knowledge and an inherited fortune, Joseph Banks encouraged ... A few years later, Banks persuaded the admiralty to allow him to join an expedition led by James Cook ...

Annotated watercolour painting by Georg Forster, made during James Cook’s second voyage to ... was the first devoted to scientific discovery. Cook and his crew, which included naturalist Joseph Banks, ...

It has been 250 years since naturalist Joseph Banks sailed to the Pacific with James Cook aboard HMB Endeavour. During the voyage, Banks and his team made the first scientific collections of ...

A medal marking Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery in ... The medal was commissioned by famous botanist Sir Joseph Banks and paid for by the Admiralty. They were designed to prove ...

Stowed away in the margins of Captain Cook's and Joseph Banks's diaries, the enigmatic Polynesian has ... and the subsequent voyages of James Cook and William Bligh,' Anne explains. 'In both Wallis's ...

Old man banksia (Banksia serrata), collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook's voyage of discovery to ... includes specimens made on voyages such as those of James Cook, HMS Beagle ...