Joseph Banks and the British Museum : the world of collecting, 1770-1830
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Joseph Banks and the British Museum : the world of collecting, 1770-1830
Pickering & Chatto, 2007
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Includes bibliography (p. 171-182) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Concentrating on the explorer and naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820), this book explores the early history of collections at the British Museum. Taking Banks' extraordinary career as its basis, it examines the changes that took place during a period of transition that led to collecting on an increasingly global scale.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations, Preface, Foreword, Introduction, 1 Banks as an Early Traveller and Collector, and the British Museum, 2 Ethnography, 3 Natural History and Zoology, 4 Investigating Natural History: Expanding Limits After 1800, 5 Earth Sciences, 6 Libraries and Antiquities, Conclusions, Epitaph, Notes, Bibliography, Appendix
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