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Joseph Banks correspondence, 1783-1808
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Title: Joseph Banks Correspondence,
Date (inclusive): 1783-1808
Collection number: 286
Creator: Banks, Joseph
1743-1820
Extent:
6 A.L.S.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections
Division
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: 6 autographed letters signed from Joseph Banks to
various correspondents including E.A.J. Anisson; Samuel Glasse, 1735-1812;
J.J.H. La Billardiere, 1755-1834; Samule Lysons, 1763-1819; and John Symmons, d.
1832.
Physical location: History and Special Collections Division
cage
Language of Material: Collection materials in eng
Collection is open for research. Materials are available on site for use.
Property rights in the physical objects belong to the UCLA Biomedical
Library. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and
their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission
to publish if the Biomedical Library does not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Joseph Banks Correspondence (Manuscript collection 286). Louise M. Darling
Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division, University of
California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
5343921
Botanist and naturalist, Sir Joseph Banks, FRS, was born into a wealthy
land-owning family on February 12, 1743. He expressed a particular interest in
botany at an early age and after inheriting his family's fortune in the 1760's,
was free to fully engage in his passion. He accompanied James Cook aboard the
H.M.S Endeavor on his first voyage to Tahiti in 1768. The specimens collected on
this voyage accounted for approximately 110 new genera and 1300 new species.
After this trip, he became actively involved in promoting the British
colonization of Australia. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1766, he
became president in 1778, a post he held until his death on June 19, 1820. The
Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, also known as
the Royal Society, was founded in London in 1660. The Society began in the
1640's as a discussion group among natural philosophers. Its purpose was to
investigate and support experiential science. The Society became the United
Kingdom's national academy of science, supporting and facilitating the work and
education of members of the scientific community throughout the UK and the
Commonwealth.
Collection of 6 autographed letters signed on miscellaneous topics including:
1. 1783 September 6: to E.A.J. Annisson thanking him for his gift to the Royal
Society but also noting the resolution made some years ago regarding "not
admitting any more members upon the foreign list till the number was reduced."
2. 1804 March 2: to Rev. Dr. Glasser thanking "Mons. Carnot, President of the
National Institute of Paris for the liberation of Mr. Osbourne, member of the
Royal Society." Banks also notes that "we are not in possession of any correct
list as Prisoners of War."
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Royal Society
(Great Britain)
Annisson, E.A.J., d. 1788
Glasse, Samuel, 1735-1812
La Billardie`re, Jacques-Julien
Houtou de, 1755-1834.
Lysons, Samuel, 1763-1819
Symmons, J. (John),
1781-1842
Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858