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, 1767-1819, from the State Library of New South Wales

Contents of Reels

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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