√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | 'During his holidays he found on his mother's dressing-table an old torn copy of Gerard's "Herbal", having the names a... | Joseph Banks | John Gerard | The Herball or General Historie of Plants | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The growth of the Rhizophora also pleased me much, although I had before a very good idea of it from Rumphius, who ha... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbarium Amboinensis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We took Beroe incrassata, Medusa limpidissima, plicata and obliquata, Alcyonium anguillare (probably the thing that S... | Joseph Banks | George Shelvocke | A Voyage Round the World by way of the Great South Sea | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Possibly that might be Cape Horn, but a fog which overcast it almost immediately after we saw it, hindered our making... | Joseph Banks | Charles De Brosses | Histoire des navigations aux terres australes, contenant ce que l'on sait des moeurs et des productions des contr?es d?couvertes jusqu'? ce jour | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This cabbage we have eaten every day since we left Cape Horn, and have now good store remaining; as good, to our pala... | Joseph Banks | [uknown-ship's cook?] | [recipe] | Manuscript: Sheet, Hand written recipe. |
| 1700-1799 | 'About a fortnight ago my gums swelled, and some small pimples rose on the inside of my mouth, which threatened to bec... | Joseph Banks | Hulme | [book with medical directions] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and ... | Joseph Banks | Patrick Browne | The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and ... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbarium Amboinensis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'From the vocabularies given in Le Maire's voyage (see Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, tom. i. p. 410) ... | Joseph Banks | Charles de Brosse | Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I shall give them from a book called a "Collection of Voyages by the Dutch East Company", Lond. 1703, p. 116, where, ... | Joseph Banks | Rene Augustin Constantin de Renneville | A collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the improvement of trade & navigation ... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was covered with a fine cloth of a manufacture totally new to us; it was tied on exactly as represented in Mr. Dal... | Joseph Banks | Alexander Dalrymple | An Account of the Discoveries made in the South Pacifick Ocean, previous to 1764 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The men in these boats were dressed much as they are represented in Tasman's figure, that is, two corners of the clot... | Joseph Banks | Abel Jansen Tasman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We had also that fish described by Frezier in his voyage to Spanish South America by the name of "elefant, pejegallo"... | Joseph Banks | Amedee Francois Frezier | Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux c?tes du Chili, et du Peron, fair pendent les annees, 1712, 1713, et 1714 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In examining a fig which we had found at our last going ashore, we found in the fruit a "Cynips", very like, if not e... | Joseph Banks | Fredrik Hasselquist | Iter Palestinum | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The gum-trees were like those in the last bay, both in leaf and in producing a very small proportion of gum; on the b... | Joseph Banks | Sir Hans Sloane | History of Jamaica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female,... | Joseph Banks | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female,... | Joseph Banks | Peter Simon Pallas | Miscellanea Zoologia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having now, I believe, fairly passed through between New Holland and New Guinea, and having an open sea to the westwa... | Joseph Banks | William Dampier | "Voyage Round the World" or "Voyage to New Holland" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "San... | Joseph Banks | William Dampier | "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "San... | Joseph Banks | Abel Janszoon Tasman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The third was of the opossum kind, and much resembled that called by De Buffon "Phalanger". Of these two last I took... | Joseph Banks | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When first we found the tree, we of course gathered the branches, and were surprised to find our hands instantly cove... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbarium Aboinense | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The chief inconvenience in handling the roots came from the infinite number; myriads would come in an instant out of ... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbarium Aboinense | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'All the shoals that were dry at half ebb afforded plenty of fish, left dry in small hollows of the rocks, and a profu... | Joseph Banks | William Dampier | "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the evening a small bird of the noddy (Sterna) kind hovered about the ship, and at night settled on the rigging, w... | Joseph Banks | William Dampier | "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been told that this very method was proposed in the "Gentleman's Magazine" many years ago, but have not the bo... | Joseph Banks | Amedee Francois Frezier | Relation d'un voyage de la Mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili et du Perou | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'All I can say is that when seen from the top of a building, from whence the eye takes it in at one view, it does not ... | Joseph Banks | Francois Valentijn | Oudt en Nieuw Oost-Indie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Authors tell strange stories about the immense size to which this fruit grows in some countries which are favourable ... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbrium Aboinensis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To attempt to describe either their dresses or persons would be only to repeat some of the many accounts of them that... | Joseph Banks | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |