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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 George Macartney, Lachlan Macquarie, Joao Jacinto Magalhaens, Thomas Manning, John Marra, the Reverend Samuel Marsden, William Marsden, the Reverend Nevil Maskelyne, Francis Masson, James Mario Matra, Archibald Menzies, John Frederick Miller, John Montagu (Earl Of Sandwich), Valentine Morris, Antonio Rolim de Moura (Conde D'Azambuja), Edward Nairne, the Navy Board, David Nelson, Evan Nepean, Johnson Newman, George Nicol, Omai, William Packover, Peter Simon Pallas, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, Sydney Parkinson, William Paterson, Robert Patton, Thomas Pennant, Dr Thomas Percival, William Philp Perrin, Arthur Phillip, Constantine John Phipps (Baron Mulgrave), William Henry Pigou, William Pitt the Younger, Friedrich August Zorn Von Plobsheim, Nathaniel Portlock, Henry Porteous, Joseph Priestley, Jesse Ramsden, John Reeves, James Robertson, Francis Robson, William Roxburgh, David Van Royen, Patrick Russell, Charles Green Say, Johann Friedrich Schiller, David Scott, Dr Helenus Scott, George Shaw, the Reverend William Sheffield, John Keyse Sherwin, Humphrey Sibthorp, Christopher Smith, John Sneyd, Daniel Solander, Pierre Sonnerat, Andreas Sparrman, George John Spencer (Lord Spencer), Johann Karl Philipp Spener, Sir George Leonard Staunton, Sir George Thomas Staunton, Joshua Steele, Sir Philip Stephens, Richard Stevens, William Strahan, James Strange, George Suttor, Edward Thompson, Andre Thouin, Carl Peter Thunberg, Thomas Townshend (Lord Sydney), George Vancouver, Domingos Vandelli, Dr Nathaniel Wallich, John Webber, William Westall, Nathan Wetherell, George Wombwell and Sir George Yonge Subjects covered include: * The Endeavour voyage, 1768-71 * Banks's involvement in the published accounts of Cook's voyages, 1771-1784 * Banks's proposals for a settlement on the east coast of Australia, 1779-1785 * Banks's advice regarding the mounting of the 'First Fleet' under Captain Arthur Phillip RN to found a colony at Sydney Cove, 1788, and his support for New South Wales up to 1820 * Banks's supervision of the two breadfruit voyages of William Bligh RN, 1787-93 * The East India Company, 1779-1820 * African and Indian Affairs, 1786-1820 * Banks's involvement in early fur-trading ventures to the northwest coast of America and Captain George Vancouver's survey voyage of 1791-94 * Banks's assistance in the mounting of the Macartney Embassy to China, 1792-4 * Banks's encouragement and guidance in the coastal surveys of Australia, notably those by Captain Matthew Flinders RN, 1795-1800 * Banks's plans for the epic voyage of HMS Investigator and the scientific party that he selected to sail on it, 1800-1805 * Banks's organization of the collectors and observers that were regularly dispatched on naval missions sent to the Pacific. His sorting, distribution and management of the collections made on the voyages and missions that were mounted, and his support of the publication of the accounts of these missions afterwards up to 1820

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Neil Chambers

Reviews

'This book is an essential work of reference for all scholars of eighteenth-century science and exploration.' Archives of Natural History 'Chambers's collections of Banks's letters not only provide an invaluable scholarly resource, but give a wonderful flavour of the world that produced Banks, and which he then proceeded to shape.' Times Literary Supplement 'The scholarship of the editor and the impressive production of the publisher do ample credit to the global legacy of Banks and both are worthy of the warmest congratulation.' Archives of Natural History 'will be invaluable to anyone who is interested in the thinking behind Britain's worldwide expansion, and the establishment of the second British Empire in the late eighteenth century.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society