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THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Series Two: The Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820

Part 4: Correspondence and Papers relating to
Voyages of Discovery, 1768-1820, from the State Library of New South Wales

REEL 52 - Sir Joseph Banks: Correspondence, 1773-1819
  - Sir Joseph Banks: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1782-1818, including certificates and diplomas presented to Banks, 1785-1813, correspondence with the British Museum, 1788-1809, correspondence concerning a monument to Dr Samuel Johnson, 1791, and miscellaneous invoices and receipts, 1788-1805.

REEL 53 - Sir Joseph Banks: Miscellaneous reports and articles, 1777-1816
  - Sir Joseph Banks: Material relating to his Lincolnshire estates, including Revesby Abbey, 1790-1808.
  - Sarah Sophia Banks: Correspondence, 1773-1774, 1779.
  - Lady Dorothea Banks: Correspondence, 1817-1822.

REEL 54
 - Sir Joseph Banks: Miscellaneous papers, 1767-1815, including journals of an excursion to Chatham, Rochester, Sheerness and Sheppey, 1767, and of a tour in Holland, 1773. Also, correspondence with Archibald Menzies and material regarding Macartney’s China expedition, Vancouver’s Pacific voyage, and the discovery of Pitcairn Island and the mutineers of HMS Bounty.
  - Sir Joseph Banks: Endeavour Journal, volume 1, Aug 1768 - Aug 1769

REEL 55
 - Sir Joseph Banks: Endeavour Journal, volume 2, Aug 1769 - July 1771

REEL 56
  - Sir Joseph Banks: Material relating to Cook’s three Pacific voyages, 1768-1779, including correspondence with James Cook and Charles Clerke, and a draft of Bank’s letter to the Earl of Sandwich giving his reasons for withdrawing from the second voyage.

REEL 57
  - Sir Joseph Banks: Correspondence with gardeners and collectors, 1776-1814, including Francis Masson, 1776-1800, 1805, William Wright, c1782-1793, David Burton, 1790-1794, Christopher Smith, 1795-1801, Peter Good, 1794, and George Caley, 1795-1809, 1814.

REEL 58
  - Sir Joseph Banks: Correspondence with gardeners and collectors, 1780’s-1820, including material regarding the outfitting of HMS Porpoise, 1797-1801, general correspondence, 1791-1820, botanical reports, 1799, 1817-1818, "Rules for Collecting and preserving specimens of plants", and plant and specimen lists, 1780’s-1790’s.

REEL 59
  - Sir Joseph Banks: Material relating to Australia and the South Seas, 1786-1814, including correspondence with Mungo Park, 1798, William Paterson, 1782, 1790-1808, and William Kent, 1801-1806, and materials relating to mining, convicts, emigrants and the settlement of Australia.

REEL 60
  - Sir Joseph Banks: Correspondence with Governors of New South Wales, 1787-1809, including Arthur Philip, 1787-1792, 1794-1796, John Hunter, 1795-1802, 1807, and Philip Gidley King, 1788, 1791-1807.

REEL 61
  - Sir Joseph Banks: Correspondence with Governors of New South Wales, 1787-1811, including William Bligh, 1805-1811, and Lachlan Macquarie, 1809.
  - Sir Joseph Banks: Papers relating to William Bligh’s naval commands, 1805

REEL 62
  - Sir Joseph Banks: Papers relating to the two Breadfruit voyages of William Bligh, 1787-1791, on HMS Bounty and HM Ships Providence and Assistant.
  - Sir Joseph Banks: Papers relating to William Bligh’s naval commands, 1795-1805

REEL 63
  - William Bligh: Log of HMS Bounty, 1787-1790
  - William Bligh: Account of the Voyage in the launch of HMS Bounty, 1789

REEL 64
  - Sir Joseph Banks: Materials relating to the voyages of Matthew Flinders, 1800-1808, including correspondence regarding HMS Investigator, letters about Flinders while he was a prisoner on the Isle de France, and reports concerning the wrecks of HM Ships Porpoise and Cato.
  - Matthew Flinders: Diary, 1803-1814

REEL 65
  - Matthew Flinders: Log of HMS Investigator, volume 1, Jan 1801 - May 1802
  - Matthew Flinders: Log of HMS Investigator, volume 2, May 1802 - June 1803
  - Journal of the Proceedings of HMS Endeavour, 1768-1770 (the 'Corner' manuscript, a copy of Cook’s Journal, signed by Cook, in the hand of Orton, the ship’s clerk).



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