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SIR JOSEPH BANKS. 
Royal Society and its President into ridicule, by suggesting that he 
boiled fleas to ascertain whether they turned red like lobsters. At 
the end of the last-named, he makes the following note : — 
“ The author would not have so frequently taken the liberty of 
putting vulgarisms into the worthy President’s mouth had he not 
previously known that Sir Joseph was the most accomplished swearer 
of the Royal Society.” (Probably an allusion to his having to swear-in 
members.) 
Then, further, we have — 
(Wolcot, John). “Peter’s Prophecy; or, the President and the 
Poet; or, an Important Epistle to Sir J. Banks,” &c. Ed. 4. London, 
1788. 8vo. 
42. See also chapter v. Book the second — “ The Founder of the 
Banksian Museum and Library,” pages 487-514, in “Lives of the Founders 
-of the British Museum,” by Edward Edwards (Triibner & Co., London, 
1870), a work which I only saw after my own work was written. 
Many important works were dedicated to Banks, e.g . : — 
1. Turner, Dawson. “ Fuci, or coloured figures and descriptions 
of the plants referred by botanists to the genus Fucus ” 
(1808-1819). A monumental work in 5 vols. It contains 
descriptions of the seaweeds collected by Banks and Brown, 
acknowledges the author’s indebtedness to the Banksian 
Herbarium ; the work is dedicated to “ the Patron of Science.” 
2. “ Herbarium Britannicum, G. Don, consisting of Fascicuh of 
dried British plants, with their appropriate names and par- 
ticular habitats, annexed by G. Don, Associate of the Linnean 
Society.” Dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks, Edinburgh, July 2, 
1804. 
3. Bauer, Ferd. “ Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae.” 1813. 
