SIR JOSEPH BANKS XXXVil 
engraving of the statue, copies of which were distributed to 
various institutions and individuals. The monument now 
stands in the Natural History Department of the British 
Museum. 
Amongst public notices of Sir Joseph Banks after his 
death, the best known are Cuvier’s Eloge delivered before the 
French Academy, and Sir Everard Home’s Hunterian Oration. 
The lease of his house in Soho Square, and an annuity 
of £200, were left to Robert Brown, to whom were also 
bequeathed his library and natural history collections, with 
reversion to the British Museum. On condition of being 
appointed keeper of the botanical department, Brown made 
over the whole in 1828, reserving to himself the fullest use of 
the collections during his life, and accepting the duty of pre- 
paring a Life of Banks, as told in the preface to this “Journal.” 
Considering the eminence of Banks’s position in the 
scientific world, it is surprising to find how little he wrote. 
The following are the most important of his publications— 
“A short Account of the cause of the Disease in Corn, called by 
farmers the Blight, the Mildew, and the Rust.”—Nicholson, Journ. x. 
(1805), pp. 225-234; Tilloch, Phil. Mag. xxi. (1805), pp. 320-327 ; 
Ann. Bot. ii. (1806), pp. 51-61. Also as a separate publication, 1805, 
8vo, 15 pp. 1 tab.; and reprinted in Curtis, Practical Observations on 
the British Grasses, 1824, pp. 151-166, t. 1. 
“An attempt to ascertain the time when the Potato (Solanwm 
tuberosum) was first introduced into the United Kingdom; with 
some Account of the Hill Wheat of India” (1805).—AHortic. Soe. 
Trans. i, 1812, pp. 8-12. 
“Some Hints respecting the proper Mode of inuring tender Plants 
to our Climate,” Lc. pp. 21-25. 
“On the Forcing-houses of the Romans, with a List of Fruits culti- 
vated by them now in our Gardens,” Jc. pp. 147-156. 
“On ripening the second Crop of Figs that grow on the new 
Shoots,” lc. pp. 252-254. 
“Notes relative to the first appearance of the Aphis lanigera, or 
the Apple Tree Insect, in this Country ” (1812), lc. ii, pp. 162-170. 
“ Observations on the nature and formation of the Stone incrusting 
the Skeletons which have been found in the Island of Guadeloupe, 
with some account of the origin of those Skeletons” (1818).—Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xii. (1818), pp. 53-61. 
