How did Joseph Banks arrange for the publication of his Florilegium after his return to London from the Pacific?

Follow us to his house in Soho Square, London – into his library and to his herbarium.



Edwin D. Rose
‘From the South Seas to Soho Square:
Joseph Banks’s Library, Collection and Kingdom of Natural History’


Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Special issue: Rethinking Banks (2019)


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The entire special issue of Notes and Records, titled Rethinking Joseph Banks, is available on the Royal Society’s website.


We would like to thank Edwin Rose – who was Munby Fellow at Cambridge University Library in 2020-2021 – for the permission to link to this article as part of our Banks resources.


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