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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I EARLY YEARS
- CHAPTER II ROUND THE WORLD WITH CAPTAIN COOK
- CHAPTER III VISIT TO ICELAND. COOK'S SECOND AND THIRD VOYAGES
- CHAPTER IV PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY
- CHAPTER V THE ROYAL SOCIETY—continued
- CHAPTER VI KEW GARDENS—GEORGE III
- CHAPTER VII PLANT COLLECTORS
- CHAPTER VIII BLIGH'S VOYAGES IN THE “BOUNTY” AND “PROVIDENCE”
- CHAPTER IX VARIOUS ADVENTURERS
- CHAPTER X MÆECENAS AND HIS HAPPENINGS
- CHAPTER XI THE SCOFFER ABROAD
- CHAPTER XII EUROPEAN FAME
- CHAPTER XIII THE FOUNDING OF AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER XIV CAPTAIN FLINDERS AND ROBERT BROWN
- CHAPTER XV ICELANDIC AFFAIRS
- CHAPTER XVI THE RISE OF NEW LEARNED SOCIETIES
- CHAPTER XVII REVIVAL OF BOTANICAL EXPLORATION
- CHAPTER XVIII FAILING HEALTH, BUT UNFLAGGING ZEAL
- CHAPTER XIX SOME FRIENDS OF LATER YEARS
- CHAPTER XX “A FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN”
- CHAPTER XXI THE END
- INDEX
- Plate section
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I EARLY YEARS
- CHAPTER II ROUND THE WORLD WITH CAPTAIN COOK
- CHAPTER III VISIT TO ICELAND. COOK'S SECOND AND THIRD VOYAGES
- CHAPTER IV PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY
- CHAPTER V THE ROYAL SOCIETY—continued
- CHAPTER VI KEW GARDENS—GEORGE III
- CHAPTER VII PLANT COLLECTORS
- CHAPTER VIII BLIGH'S VOYAGES IN THE “BOUNTY” AND “PROVIDENCE”
- CHAPTER IX VARIOUS ADVENTURERS
- CHAPTER X MÆECENAS AND HIS HAPPENINGS
- CHAPTER XI THE SCOFFER ABROAD
- CHAPTER XII EUROPEAN FAME
- CHAPTER XIII THE FOUNDING OF AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER XIV CAPTAIN FLINDERS AND ROBERT BROWN
- CHAPTER XV ICELANDIC AFFAIRS
- CHAPTER XVI THE RISE OF NEW LEARNED SOCIETIES
- CHAPTER XVII REVIVAL OF BOTANICAL EXPLORATION
- CHAPTER XVIII FAILING HEALTH, BUT UNFLAGGING ZEAL
- CHAPTER XIX SOME FRIENDS OF LATER YEARS
- CHAPTER XX “A FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN”
- CHAPTER XXI THE END
- INDEX
- Plate section
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- The Life of Sir Joseph BanksPresident of the Royal Society, with Some Notices of his Friends and Contemporaries, pp. xv - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1911