Joseph Banks | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

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00:01:34 1 Early life
00:02:08 1.1 Education
00:04:11 2 Newfoundland and Labrador
00:05:03 3 iEndeavour/i voyage
00:07:28 4 Return home
00:11:58 5 Colonisation of New South Wales
00:15:11 6 Later life
00:18:32 7 Legacy
00:22:17 8 Online archive
00:22:48 9 See also



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Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet,  (24 February [O.S. 13 February] 1743 – 19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.
Banks made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771), visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and after 6 months in New Zealand, Australia, returning to immediate fame. He held the position of president of the Royal Society for over 41 years. He advised King George III on the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and by sending botanists around the world to collect plants, he made Kew the world's leading botanical gardens. He is credited for bringing 30,000 plant specimens home with him; amongst them, he discovered 1,400. Banks advocated British settlement in New South Wales and colonisation of Australia, as well as the establishment of Botany Bay as a place for the reception of convicts, and advised the British government on all Australian matters.  He is credited with introducing the eucalyptus, acacia, and the genus named after him, Banksia, to the Western world. Around 80 species of plants bear his name. He was the leading founder of the African Association and a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to establish the Royal Academy.