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Banks, Joseph - English
URL: http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/B/Banks/1.html

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He accompanied Capt James Cook on his voyage around the world 1768-71 and brought back 3,600 plants, 1,400 of them never before classified. The Banksia genus of shrubs is named after him. Banks was born in London and educated at Oxford. Inheriting a fortune, he made his first voyage 1766, to Labrador and Newfoundland.

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The Hunterian Museum: Joseph Banks - English
URL: http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/museum/cook/banks.html

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Sir Joseph Banks was born 13th of February 1743 at London and died 1820 in London. He was one of the key figures surrounding the natural history of the Voyages of Captain Cook. Banks studied at Christ Church College, Oxford, though he did not graduate. During 1768 - 1771 Banks accompanied Captain Cook's expedition to the South Pacific, where he collected specimens of corals, shells, insects, and plants from the islands.

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Banks, Joseph - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry - English
URL: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000037b.htm

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Banks travelled with James Cook on the "Endeavour" in 1768-71, and thereafter remained for some thirty years the major sponsor of science in the Australian region.

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Tattoos.Com Ezine - English
URL: http://www.tattoos.com/jane/steve/banks.htm

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Tattoo History Source Book: Sir Joseph Banks and the First Records of Tattooing in Tahiti and New Zealand.

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