Joseph Banks possessed the greater part of the zoological specimens collected on James Cook's three voyages round the world (1768--1780). In early 1792, Banks divided his zoological collection between John Hunter and the British Museum. It is probable that those donations together comprised most of the zoological specimens then in the possession of Banks, including such bird specimens as remained of those that had been collected by himself and Daniel Solander on Cook's first voyage, and those that had been presented to him from Cook's second and third voyages. The bird specimens included in the Banks donations of 1792 became part of a series of transactions during the succeeding 53 years which involved the British Museum, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and William Bullock. It is a great pity that, of the extensive collection of bird specimens from Cook's voyages once possessed by Banks, only two are known with any certainty to survive.
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Jordan Goodman;
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Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany
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(2023)
Wooden barrels for transporting and preserving natural history specimens in the eighteenth century
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Tobin, Beth Fowkes;
(2014)
The Duchess's Shells: Natural History Collecting in the Age of Cook's Voyages
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Christopher Plumb;
(2018)
Bird sellers and animal merchants
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Article
Medway, David G.;
(2011)
The Contribution of Thomas Pennant (1726--1798), Welsh Naturalist, to the Australian Ornithology of Cook's First Voyage (1768--1771)
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Neil Chambers;
(2016)
Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771
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Fara, Patricia;
(2003)
Joseph Banks: Pacific Pictures
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(2013)
Naturalists at Sea: Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin
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David Mabberley;
Mel Gooding;
Joseph Studholme;
(2017)
Joseph Banks' Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage
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Lincoln, Margarette;
(1998)
Science and exploration in the Pacific: European voyages to the southern oceans in the 18th century
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Chapter
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann;
(2016)
For the Birds: Collecting, Art, and Natural History in Saxony
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Article
Matthew Fishburn;
(2022)
Dwarf emus from Baudin's voyage (1800–1804): An overlooked engraving by Nicolas Huet (1770–1830)
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Article
Dean, W. R. J.;
Sandwith, M.;
Milton, S. J.;
(2006)
The Bird Collections of C. J. Andersson in Southern Africa, 1850--1867
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Article
Olga Elina;
(2018)
A Passion for Plants: Collections and Power Games in Botany in the Russian Empire from the 18th to the Early 19th Century
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Article
McCracken, Donal P.;
(2012)
Leslie McCracken and Charles Bethune Horsbrugh: Collecting Birds' Eggs in Northern Ireland in the 1920s and Early 1930s
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Article
Luca Ghiraldi;
Matteo Ruzzon;
Marta Coloberti;
Alessandro Di Meo;
(2023)
Notes on the birds collected by Giovanni Emilio Cerruti during his journey to New Guinea (1869–1870)
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Morris, P. A.;
(2006)
J. B. Nichols' Purchasing Code
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Grouw, H. Van;
Bloch, D.;
(2015)
History of the Extant Museum Specimens of the Faroese White-Speckled Raven
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Jackson Pope;
(2016)
Listening at the Lab: Bird Watchers and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
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(2008)
The Travails of an Early-Twentieth-Century Wildlife Illustrator in North America
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