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SUMMARY:After Cook: Joseph Banks and his travelling natures\, 1787–1810 
 - Jordan Goodman (UCL)
DTSTART:20161031T130000Z
DTEND:20161031T140000Z
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CONTACT:Edwin Rose
DESCRIPTION:The death of Captain James Cook in February 1779 deprived Brit
 ain of one of its finest navigators but the voyage continued. For Joseph B
 anks\, the voyage of the _Resolution_ and the _Discovery_\, in which he ha
 d a part\, was the beginning of a new relationship with the Admiralty and 
 a new chapter in the history of botanical knowledge.\n\nBanks never went t
 o sea again after 1773. For the rest of his life the sea was at the heart 
 of what he loved to do most. From 1778\, when he was elected President of 
 the Royal Society\, Banks intervened in all of the Admiralty voyages of ex
 ploration making them his kind of scientific project: he selected vital pe
 rsonnel\, including gardeners\, botanists and artists\; he wrote out instr
 uctions for commanders\; and most importantly\, he changed the architectur
 e of the ships by commandeering space\, by turning them into 'floating gar
 dens'\, moving plants from one part of the world to the other\, and supply
 ing King George III's Royal Gardens at Kew with exotic plants unique in Eu
 rope. But it wasn't just Admiralty ships that saw the visible hand of Bank
 s. In 1798\, the East India Company agreed to let Banks use one of their s
 hips to move plants between Kew and Calcutta\, an unprecedented and succes
 sful project. With similar techniques\, Banks moved plants between Kew and
  Canton from 1803 and 1810.\n\nThis paper on the world of Banks and his tr
 avelling natures will draw on two Admiralty voyages and one East India Com
 pany voyage.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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