> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 115](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120246) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/448-1) LSID 448-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153408) QID Q153408 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820), British naturalist, traveller, philanthropist and scientist, President of the Royal Society (1778-1820). **Abbreviated name**: *Banks* \[standard form in IPNI: *Banks*\] #### Collections The Banks herbarium, which during his life-time was housed at Soho Square, London, and which constituted a center of plant taxonomic research unequalled in the world at that time, is now the nucleus of the collection of the Department of Botany of the British Museum (Natural History) (BM). This Department was originally called the Banksian department and was established to receive the Banks collection which had been bequeathed to Robert Brown on the condition that it would ultimately go to the British Museum. Brown moved the herbarium to the British Museum in 1827. In 1834 he reported that it contained 23.400 species. The Banks herbarium contains, next to a great many other important collections, the main set of the collections made by Banks and his librarian Daniel Solander (1736-1782) on their journey with Captain Cook (first voyage 1768-1771). A great number of publications (though not by Banks) are based on these collections. For publications based in part, or fully, on the Banks herbarium see Aiton, R. Brown, L'Héritier, Parkinson, Swartz. Bank's library is at the British Museum (Bloomsbury). For his correspondence see Dawson (1958). *Ref*.: IH 2: 53. - Banks, An account of the voyages... in the Southern Hemisphere \[ed. 2\], 3 vols. - London 1773. - J. D. Hooker \[ed.\]. Journal of... Sir J. Banks... during Captain Cook's first voyage. - London 1896. - Murray, History Coll. BMNH 1: 79-193. 1904. - Britten, J. Bot. 43: 248-290. 1905. - Urban, Fl. bras. 1(1): 3-4. 1906. - Arber, Chron. bot. 9: 94-106. 1945. - Kent, Brit. herbaria 41. 1953. - Dawson, The Banks letters, London 1958. - Groves, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 4: 57-62. 1962. - Lysaght, Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766. London 1971. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 399 (index). 1971. - Lysaght and Cannon, Taxon 22: 323. 1973; BSBI News 2(1): 15-16. 1973. #### Note The literature on Joseph Banks is enormous. We enumerate here some of the main publications which guide the user to the further literature as well as some of the more recent publications. An up to date general biography is given by Foote (1970), a very detailed bibliography of and on Banks is provided by Beddie (1970); Lysaght (1971) refers to much new source material on Banks's earlier years. The older biographies by Jackson (in DNB), Edward Smith (1911) and Cameron (1952) are still very useful. Beaglehole's editing of the *Endeavour Journal* is also an important independent source. For Banks's correspondence see Dawson (1958). For the *Catalogue* of Banks's library see Dryander (1796-1800). #### Bibliography and biography AG 1: 211, 4: 638; Barnhart 1: 111; BB p. 19; BM 1: 95, 6: 55-56; Bossert p. 24; CSP 1: 176; DNB 3: 129 (by Jackson); HU \[index to vol. 2\]; Jackson p. 518 \[index\]; Kew 1: 153-154; KR p. 65-66; Lasègue p. 561 \[index\]; LS 1666-1667; Moebius p. 409; MW p. 31; NI 74; PR 404; Zander ed. 10, p. 631. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist.-nat. Banks. London 1798-1800, 5 vols. \[see also under Dryan der\]. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 86, 186. 1903, 3(3): 75. 1905. - Maiden, J. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. 42: 63-64. 1908. - Maiden, Sir Joseph Banks the Father of Australia. London, Sydney 1909. - Smith, Edward, The life of Sir Joseph Banks. London 1911 (see also Lysaght, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 5(4): 206-209. 1964). - Oliver, Makers Brit. bot. 112-123. 1913. - Hulth, Bref och Skr. Linné 2(1): 150-152. 1916. - Fox, Fothergill 423 \[index\]. 1919. - Druce, Fl. Oxfordshire ed. 2. lxxxix-xc. 1927. - Curtis, W. H., William Curtis 13, 39, 51, 59, 63, 82, 111. 1941. - Yedidie et al., New source material on Sir Joseph Banks and Iceland. Occ. papers Sutro Branch Calif. State Libr., no. 3. 1941. - Riddelsdell, Fl. Gloucestershire cxii. 1948. - Glen, The botanical explorers of New Zealand 173. 1950. - Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males. ser. I. 1: 34-35. 1950 (portr.) - Cameron, Sir Joseph Banks, K.B., P.R.S., The autocrat of the philosophers. London 1952. - Merrill, Chron. bot. 14: 163-383. 1954 (botany of Cook's voyages). - Beer, The sciences were never at war. London, Edinburgh. Paris 1960. - Beaglehole, The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 1768-1771, 2 vols. Sydney 1962. - Dawson, The Banks letters. London 1958. Suppl. London 1962. - Stafleu in l'Heritier, Sertum anglicum, facs. ed. xvi-xviii. 1963. - Rydén, The Banks collection. Stockholm 1963 (portr.) - Rauschenberg, Isis 55: 62-67. 1964 (Banks on Solander). - Coats, Huntia 2: 185-215. 1965 (portr.) - Beaglehole, The voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771. Cambridge 1968. - Stafleu, Taxon 17: 218-220. 1968. - Stearn, Endeavour 27: 3-10. 1968. - Berkeley and Berkeley, Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town 361 \[index\]. 1969. - James, The trees of Bicton. 106. 1969. - McGillivray, Austral, nat. Hist. 16: 251-254. 1969. - Stearn, Notes and Records Roy. Soc. London 24(1): 64-90. 1969. - Whitley, Austral. nat. Hist. 16: 247-250. 1969. - Beddie, Bibliography of Captain James Cook. 1970 (nos. 3877-4282 and p. 815-816 on Banks, extensive bibl. q.v. for the great majority of earlier references, and for referen– ces to manuscrips, letters and publications. - Foote, DSB 1: 433-437. 1970. - McGillivray, Contr. New South Wales nat. Herb. 4: 112-125. 1970 (list ills. Botany Cook). - McMinn, Allan Cunningham 143 \[ind.\] 1970. - Paget, To the south there is a great land. Sydney 1970. - Francis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl. 83: 1-19. 1971 (1972). - McGillivray, J. Roy. Austral. Hist. Soc. 57(1): 10-16. 1971. - Lysaght, Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador 1766. London, Berkeley, Los Angeles 1971 (portr.) - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 399 \[index\]. 1971. - Stearn, Nature 230 (5888): 13. 1971. - Rauschenberg, Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 117(3): 186-226. 1973 (portr.) (journals Iceland etc.) - McLaren, J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 99(8): 339. 1974. - Lysaght, Notes Rec. Roy. Soc. London 28(2): 221-234. 1974; 29(1): 91-99. 1974. - Smit, History of the Life sciences 869-870. 1974. - Stearn, J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 99(8): 339-347. 1974 (portr.) - Stearn, Rec. Austral. Acad. Sci. 2(4): 7-24. 1974. - Cannon, Notes Rec. Roy. Soc. London 29(2): 205-230. 1975. - Teigen, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 7(3): 249-257. 1975 (suppl. letters). - Morrell, Sir Joseph Banks in New Zealand. Wellington. s.d. #### Eponymy *Banksea* J. G. König (1783); *Banksia* J.R. Forster & J. G. A. Forster (1776, *nom. rej.*);*Banksia* Linnaeus fil. (1782(?), *nom. cons.*);*Josephia* R. Brown ex J. Knight (1809). #### Postage stamps New Zealand 6 c. (1969) yv. 494; Australia 5c. (1970) (fourth in strip Cook Bicentenary). ### Publications ##### n.295. Illustrations of Australian plants collected in 1770 during Captain Cook's voyage round the world **Title** *Illustrations of Australian plants collected in 1770 during Captain Cook's voyage round the world* in H.M.S. "Endeavour." By the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks,:... and Dr. Daniel Solander. With introduction and determinations by James Britten... London 1900-1905. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Ill. Austral. pl. Cook's voy.* **Notes** *Publ*.:. series of lithographic reproductions of copper-plates engraved after the original paintings at BM by F. P. Nodder, James Miller, J. F. Miller and John Clevely. Published in three parts of which part 1 and 2 were entitled "Illustration of the Botany of Captain Cook's voyage...." Part 1: 1-31. *pl*. \[*i*\], *1-100*. 1900, 2: 35-75. *pl. 101-243.* 1901, 3: 77-102. *pl. 244-318, 45A, 122*, 3 maps. 1905. For the artists see Maiden (p. 35-43. 1909) – For details on the voyage see Banks's journals, Cook's journals (ed. Beaglehole) and Stearn (1968-1969). Beddie's bibliography, cited above, gives an extensive list of literature on Banks and his participation in the voyage of Cook. *Ref*.: BM 6: 135; GFB p. 48; Kew 1: 154; NI 74. - Banks, An account of the voyages... in the Southern Hemisphere (ed. 2), 3 vols. - London 1773. - Parkinson, A journal of a voyage to the South Seas. London 1773. - Britten, J. Bot. 43: 284-290. 1905. - Merrill, Chron. bot. 14: 163-383. 1954. - Beaglehole, The voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771. Cambridge 1955. - Beaglehole, The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768-1771, 2 vols. Sydney 1962 (reprint with addenda and corrigenda of 1955 ed.). - Groves, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 4: 57-62. 1962 (notes on botanical specimens). - Ramsbottom, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 4: 197. 1963 (notes on botanical specimens). - Beaglehole, The voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771. Cambridge 1968. - Stearn, Endeavour 27(100): 3-10. Jan 1968 (includes four coloured reproductions of the original drawings) (lacking in libr. B.M.) - Stearn, Notes and records of the Royal Society of London 24(1): 64-90. 1969. - McGillivray, J. Roy. Austral. Hist. Soc. 57(1): 10-16. 1971. - Stearn, Nature 230(5288): 13. 1971. - Francis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl. 83: 1-19. 1971 (1972).