Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective working links with the British Admiralty and with the generation of naval officers who sailed after Cook.
?Volume 1 Letters 1768-1782 Volume 2 Letters 1783-1789 Volume 3 Letters
1789-1792 Volume 4 Letters 1792-1798 Volume 5 Letters 1798-1801 Volume 6
Letters 1801-1805 Volume 7 Letters 1805-1810 Volume 8 Letters 1810-1821
Correspondents include: Jean Nicolas Sebastien Allamand, John Allen, Dr James
Anderson, William Anderson, John Arnold, Sigismund Bacstrom, Sir George
Baker, Sarah Sophia Banks, Robert Banks-Hodgkinson, Sir John Barrow, John
Bayly, Ferdinand Bauer, John Albert Bentinck, Joseph Billings, Sir Charles
Blagden, James Blake, Gregory and John Blaxland, William Bligh, Johann
Friedrich Blumenbach, Comte de Bougainville, Matthew Boulton, Robert Brooke,
Robert Brown, Dr Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Comte de Buffon, William Bulmer,
the Bunbury Committee, Peter Perez Burdett, Edmund Burke, George Caley,
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck (Duke of Portland), Charles
Clerke, James Cook, the Reverend William Cooke, John Wilson Croker, Alexander
Dalrymple, Jean-Nicolas Demeunier, Jan Deutz, George Dixon, Peter and John
Dollond, James Douglas (Earl Of Morton), the Reverend John Douglas, Dr
Alexander Duncan, Dr John Duncan, Henry Dundas, Andrew Dury, Richard Cadman
Etches, Johann Christian Fabricius, Thomas Falconer, William Augustus
Fawkener, Matthew Flinders, Johann Georg Adam Forster, Johann Reinhold
Forster, John Fothergill, Benjamin Franklin, Dr Hugh Gillian, Peter Good,
John Gore, John Grant, Henry Gregory, Margaret Eleanor Grenville, William
Wyndham Grenville (Lord Grenville), Eleanor Gyles, James Harris (Earl Of
Malmesbury), Edward Hasted, John Hawkesworth, Dr Thomas Henry, John Hope,
Richard Howe (Earl Howe), Nathaniel Hulme, John Hunter, William Hunter, Jan
Ingen-Housz, Charles Jenkinson (Baron Hawkesbury and Earl Of Liverpool),
Samuel Johnson, James King, John King, Philip Gidley King, Johann Gerhard
Koenig, Robert Kyd, Benjamin Lacam, David Lance, Comte de Lauraguais, James
Lee, James Lind, John Gideon Loten, Joao De Loureiro, Andrew Lumisden, Sir Geo
Neil Chambers
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