Sir Joseph 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

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

Sir Joseph Paxton (1801-1865)
Portrait of Sir Joseph Paxton began life as a gardener and soon became famous for his work at Chatsworth for the Duke of Devonshire, most notably, his glasshouses to house exotic plants

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

Watercolour 50 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 50 by 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

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

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

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)

Watercolour 58 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 58 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

Tritonia aurea
Illustration of Tritonia aurea, from volume 15 (1849) of Paxtons Magazine of Botany, held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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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