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sworn in as a member of the Privy Council, and in 1802 was made 

 a member of the National Institute of France. He died at Isleworth 

 on June 19,. 1820, and was buried at his own request in an unosten- 

 tatious manner in the parish church. He left his herbarium to 

 Robert Brown for life, and after his death to the British Museum, 

 where it is now preserved along with his MSS. He discovered a con- 

 siderable number of plants during his voyage with Captain Cook, 

 among them a Proteaceous genus, to which the younger Linnaeus 

 gave the name of Banksia in his honour, Bruce, the Abyssinian 

 traveller, also named after him a monotypic genus of Rosaceae, which 

 yields the celebrated vermifuge Cousso or Kousso ; on the plate 

 depicting the tree Bruce wrote ^ Bankesia abyssinica' (see the Travels, 

 vol. V. app. pp. 73-76), but in the letterpress the word is 'Banksia,' 

 and for this reason the name Hagenia dbijssinica is the one now adopted. 

 It was also in honour of Sir Joseph Banks that Robert Brown gave the 

 name Josephia to a new genus. Sir Joseph had become possessor by 

 purchase of Cliffort's herbarium, composed to a great extent of 

 Linnaeus' own plants, and now in the British Museum, where too is 

 the marble statue by Chantrey. A portrait in oils byT. Phillips, R.A., 

 and a bust by Chantrey, are in the rooms of the Linnean Society ; 

 the bust was subscribed for by Fellows of the Society, and placed in 

 the meeting-room on May 24, 1822. There is another portrait in oils 

 at Kew, and many prints of him in the Hope Collection at Oxford. 

 Several letters of Sir Joseph Banks are to be found in the Selection of 

 the Correspondence of Linnaeus, Yo\. ii. 574-580. In one of these, addressed 

 to Sir James Smith, he says : ' I fear you will differ from me in opinion, 

 when I fancy Jussieu's natural orders to be superior to those of 

 Linnaeus. ... I well remember the publication of Hudson, which was 

 the first effort at well-directed science, and the eagerness with which 

 I adopted its use.' Cuvier pi'onounced an unstinted eulogium on him 

 before the Academic Royale des Sciences, but Sir Joseph appears in it 

 rather as the munificent patron of science than as an actual worker or 

 discoverer. 



In the Herbarium in the British Museum there are a considerable 

 number of specimens collected by Sir Joseph Banks in Berkshire ; 

 among them are : — Ranunculus peltatus, Sisymhrium Alliaria, Bursa pastoris, 

 Millegrana, Lathyrus sylvestris, Sison Amomum, Angelica sylvesiris, Hippuris 

 vulgaris, Callitriche intermedia named C. autumnalis, Ulex minor named 

 nanus, Doronicum plantagineum, Veronica Anagallis, Daphne Laureola (1760), 

 Humulus Lupulus (1773), Polygonum Hyclropiper(^i']']S)j P-minus, P. Persicaria, 

 P. lapathifolium, P. maculatum, Airiplex patula (1774) (see Plot), Scirpus 

 lacustris, Juncoides campestre, Juncus effusus, J. conglomeratus, J. bufonius, 

 Carex remota, Panicularia fluitans, Bromus giganteus, Brachypodium gracile, 

 Phleum pratense, and Bromus ramosus, the latter already on record. It is 



