Sir Joseph Banks. Joseph Banks was made a baronet in 1781 and a Knight Commander of Bath in 1795 for his patronage of natural science. Drawer of butterflies from the insect collection of Sir Joseph ...

Sir Joseph Banks didn’t technically found the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew — it was George III’s mother, Princess Augusta, who started a garden there — but he literally sowed the first seeds of it ...

THE commemoration of the centenary of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., who died on June 19, 1820, was celebrated by the Linnean Society on Thursday last, as mentioned on p. 496 of NATURE for June 17.

THE forthcoming anniversary meeting of the Royal Society is the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the election of Joseph Banks, the distinguished naturalist and companion of Captain Cook in his ...