Edward SmithThe Life of Sir Joseph Banks
President of the Royal Society, With Some Notices of His Friends and Contemporaries
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Preface
1. Early years
2. Round the world with Captain Cook
3. Visit to Iceland. Cook's second and third voyages
4. President of the Royal Society
5. The Royal Society continued
6. Kew Gardens. George III
7. Plant collectors
8. Bligh's voyages in the 'Bounty' and 'Providence'
9. Various adventures
10. Maecenas and his happenings
11. The Scoffer abroad
12. European fame
13. The founding of Australia
14. Captain Flinders and Robert Brown
15. Icelandic affairs
16. The rise of new learned societies
17. Revival of botanical exploration
18. Failing health, but unflagging zeal
19. Some friends of later years
20. 'A fine old English gentleman'
21. The end
Index.