Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks 1765-1820 Vol 2

A record of fifty years of intellectual and technological activity. This record provides an insight into the development of science and discovery from the Eighteenth to the early Nineteenth Century. It links British science and society to developments on the continent of Europe, the West Indies, North America and to countries farther afield. Volume 2 The Early Period, 1765–1784 Letters 1782–1784