"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 ...

THIS journal, which now sees the light after varying vicissitudes, will take fitting place on our book shelves by the side of Darwin's “Voyage of the Beagle” and Moseley's “Challenger Notes” as one of ...

He made his name on a voyage around the world alongside Captain James Cook, before becoming a friend of King George III and one of the most influential men in Britain. But the pioneering naturalist ...

IN an old gazetteer we read that Botany Bay was discovered in 1770 by Captain Cook, who so named it from the great quantity of herbs which he found on its shores. This statement is true, of course, as ...

Amid scorching temperatures and surrounded by swarming flies, Sydney Parkinson sketched hundreds of floral specimens in a makeshift hut in Tahiti. A young botanical illustrator, Parkinson would later ...

Both ventures were the brainchild of Sir ­Joseph Banks, the naturalist who sailed on James Cook’s first voyage when Cook visited Botany Bay and Tahiti. Banks, backed by the British government, ...

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 72 (1782), pp. 384-388 (8 pages) ...

Court documents have revealed what a Sydney school principal accused of pocketing almost $1 million in an education department fraud scam allegedly spent the money on. It comes as court documents ...