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Joseph Banks on Cook's First Voyage (1768–1771)

Joseph Banks on Cook's First Voyage (1768–1771)

  1. Royal Society backs Tahiti observing mission

    Labels: Royal Society, Tahiti
  2. Banks joins Endeavour as lead naturalist

    Labels: Joseph Banks, HM Bark
  3. Artist Alexander Buchan dies at Tahiti

    Labels: Alexander Buchan, Tahiti
  4. Transit of Venus observed at Tahiti

    Labels: Tahiti, Transit of
  5. Banks’s team reaches New Zealand

    Labels: New Zealand, Banks and
  6. First landfall on Australia’s east coast

    Labels: Botany Bay, Botanists Banks
  7. Ship strikes Great Barrier Reef

    Labels: Great Barrier, Endeavour
  8. Repairs and intensive collecting at Endeavour River

    Labels: Endeavour River, Cooktown
  9. Endeavour anchors at Batavia for refit

    Labels: Batavia, Endeavour
  10. Endeavour departs Batavia amid sickness

    Labels: Batavia, Endeavour
  11. Banks’s Florilegium engravings produced from voyage drawings

    Labels: Florilegium, Sydney Parkinson
  12. Sydney Parkinson dies on return voyage

    Labels: Sydney Parkinson, Batavia
  13. Endeavour returns to England; Banks becomes celebrity

    Labels: Joseph Banks, Endeavour