Evidence: | 'The chief inconvenience in handling the roots came from the infinite number; myriads would come in an instant out of many holes, and running over the hand tickle so as to be scarcely endurable. Rhumphius has an account of this very bulb and its ants in vol. vi. p.120, where he describes also another sort, the ants of which are black.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | 26 Aug 1770 | ||||||||||
Country: | At sea between Australia and New Guinea | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: On board HMS Endeavour | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Joseph Banks |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 13 Feb 1743 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Naturalist |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | At sea between Australia and New Guinea |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Georg Eberhard Rumphius |
Title: | Herbarium Aboinense |
Genre: | Natural history |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 10127 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Banks | |
Editor: | Joseph Hooker | |
Title: | Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., K.B. P.R.S. during Captain Cook's first voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies etc. | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1896 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 304 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Joseph Banks, Joseph Hooker (ed.), Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., K.B. P.R.S. during Captain Cook's first voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies etc. (London, 1896), p. 304, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10127, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Date of birth is given as 2 February 1743 (O. S.) which has been converted to the modern date. |
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