Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Reader: Joseph Banks

 

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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 GerardThe Herball or General Historie of PlantsPrint: 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 RumphiusHerbarium AmboinensisPrint: Book
1700-1799'We took Beroe incrassata, Medusa limpidissima, plicata and obliquata, Alcyonium anguillare (probably the thing that S...Joseph Banks George ShelvockeA Voyage Round the World by way of the Great South SeaPrint: 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 BrossesHistoire des navigations aux terres australes, contenant ce que l'on sait des moeurs et des productions des contr?es d?couvertes jusqu'? ce jourPrint: 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 BrowneThe Civil and Natural History of JamaicaPrint: 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 RumphiusHerbarium AmboinensisPrint: 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 BrosseHistoire des Navigations aux Terres AustralesPrint: 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 RennevilleA 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 DalrympleAn Account of the Discoveries made in the South Pacifick Ocean, previous to 1764Print: 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 FrezierRelation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux c?tes du Chili, et du Peron, fair pendent les annees, 1712, 1713, et 1714Print: 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 HasselquistIter PalestinumPrint: 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 SloaneHistory of JamaicaPrint: 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 BuffonHistoire naturelle, generale et particulierePrint: 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 PallasMiscellanea ZoologiaPrint: 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 BuffonHistoire naturelle, generale et particulierePrint: 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 RumphiusHerbarium AboinensePrint: 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 RumphiusHerbarium AboinensePrint: 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 FrezierRelation d'un voyage de la Mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili et du PerouPrint: 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 ValentijnOudt en Nieuw Oost-IndiePrint: 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 RumphiusHerbrium AboinensisPrint: 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

 

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