Details

Compiled/​Created

17771108-18290615.

Summary note

Description: Scientific and historical papers, personal correspondence, and Drawings & Artworks from the papers of Sir Joseph Banks. The volume covers a wide range of subjects, including a plaque discovered in Brazil, agriculture in India, the description of insects, the timing of Easter, and lions brought to Europe in the seventeenth century.

Notes

AMDigital Reference: Add MS 8968.

Original version

Reproduction of: Banks Papers: mostly scientific correspondence and papers 8 Nov 1777 - 15 Jun 1829.

Location of originals

British Library

Copyright note

British Library

Source of description

Description based on online resource (viewed on May 28, 2018).

Language note

Text in English, French, Latin, German, Italian.

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