[PDR] Joseph Banks: Portraits of a Placid Elephant

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  JOSEPH BANKS: PORTRAITS OF A PLACID ELEPHANT

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Patricia Fara traces the changing iconography of Joseph Banks, the 
English botanist who travelled on Captain Cook’s first great voyage and 
went on to become President of the Royal Society and important patron 
for a whole host of significant developments in the natural sciences.**
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