1743 1820 Collection

Sir Joseph Banks herbarium and library at Soho Square
Sir Joseph Banks herbarium and part library in his house at 32 Soho Square, London. It remained there until 1827 when it was moved to the British Museum at Montagu House

Phormium tenax, New Zealand flax
A watercolour commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks and sketched by Sydney Parkinson during the Endeavour Voyage. Parkinson died at sea before he could complete it

Muntiacus muntjak, Indian muntjac
Zoological drawing 6 (1:6) Cervus plicatus. Pencil outline, lateral and front views, of head of Indian muntjac, made by Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771) during Captain Cooks first voyage of discovery

A Selection of Museum Specimens
Specimens here include an Entomological tray of insect from the order Orthoptera, a herbarium sheet from Cooks first voyage collected in New South Wales, Australia in 1770 and fish specimens

Amomum, vochya, callisia, tapanhuacanga, portlandia, fransin
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816. Page one of sixteen pages

Drawer from Insect Collection of Sir Joseph Banks (1743 - 18
A collection of more than 4, 000 insects, including butterflies, flies, bugs and moths

Insect Collection of Sir Joseph Banks (1743 - 1820)
A collection of more than 4, 000 insects, including butterflies, flies, bugs and moths

Canis lupus dingo, dingo
Dog of New South Wales. Drawing 52 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Potorous tridactylus, long-nosed potoroo
Poto Roo. Drawing 59 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Morelia spilota, diamond python
Watercolour 40 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Petaurus australis, yellow-bellied glider
Hepoona Roo. Drawing 47 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Watercolour 50 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 50 by by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Platycercus eximius, eastern rosella
Watercolour 37 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

32 Soho Square
Engraving from the Banks Archive at the Natural History Museum, London. 32 Soho Square was the residence and Herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks, an English naturalist and botanist

Cynoramphus zealandicus, black-fronted parakeet
Plate 8, (1:8) a watercolour by Sydney Parkinson from Sir Joseph Banks commission of natural history drawings from Captain James Cooks first voyage (Endeavour 1768-1771). Annotated Psittacus varieatus

Sketch of the Bounty by Joseph Banks
From Blighs Voyage to the South Sea

Macropus robustus, Euro wallaroo
Zoological drawing 5 (1:5). Watercolour study of skull and lower jaws of a wallaroo by Nathaniel Dance (1735-1811)

Chelonia mydas, green sea turtle
Zoological drawing 44 (1:40). Pencil sketch by Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771) from Sir Joseph Banks commission of natural history drawings on Captain James Cooks first voyage of the Pacific, 1768-1771

Volatinia jacarina, blue-black grassquit
Plate 37 (1:37b) a watercolour by Sydney Parkinson from Sir Joseph Banks commission of natural history drawings from Captain James Cooks first voyage (Endeavour 1768-1771)

Reptilia (class), snake
Watercolour 57 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Watercolour 67 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 67 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Chlorostilbon aureoventris, glittering-bellied emerald hummi
Collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, in Rio de Janeiro in November 1768 during Captain James Cooks first voyage

Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)
A statue at the Natural History Museum, London. Banks was a British explorer and naturalist who donated specimens after his 1768 voyage with Captain Cook on board the Endeavour

Shells from Sir Joseph Banks collection
Some of these shells featured in this museum drawer were collected during the first of Captain Cooks voyages 1768-1771

Contarenia, Limia, Mendocia, Mella, Vismia
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816

Paliauana, Orobanchia, Urcheola
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816

Vellosia, Dauilla, Lemia, Marialua
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816. Page one of sixteen pages

Hydrophyllum, Galuania, Fereiria, Cardiospermum, Correia
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816. Page one of sixteen pages

Asphalatus Acacia altera Mauk
Copy of De Materia Medica made by the Greek physician Dioscorides. Used as standard medical work up to Middle Ages. Copy made in 1460 and owned by Sir Joseph Banks

Collinsonia canadensis, horse weed
A hand written description of horse weed from Flora Nov Eboracensis, part of the the Banks Collection. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Drawing number 54
Watercolour 54 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Trichoglossus haematobus, rainbow lorikeet
Watercolour 29 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Watercolour 58 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 58 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Serpentes (suborder), snake
Watercolour 39 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Golynos Oak

Watercolour 63 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 63 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Barbacenia, Quelusia, Lafoensia
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816

Letter from Vandelli, Domenico
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816

Mellissia begonifolia, St. Helena boxwood
A specimen of St. Helena boxwood (Mellissia begonifolio) collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander in May 1771

Rubus sylvestris
Illustration is a copy from De Materia Medica made by the Greek physician Dioscorides. The copy was made in 1460 and was owned by Sir Joseph Banks

Title page from Cooks first voyage, 1768-1771
Title page from Illustrations of the Botany of New Zealand during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Solander

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