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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Joseph Banks
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(1743–1820, bt 1781) Botanist and patron of science. He accompanied Captain *Cook on his journey to the Pacific in 1768, taking with him at his own expense the botanist Daniel Solander and two artists to record their finds. The superb series of copper plates depicting the plants, commissioned later by Banks, are now in the Natural History Museum in London; they were printed and published for the first time during the 1980s. Banks also played a major part in building up the collection of plants at *Kew Gardens.
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