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THE forthcoming anniversary meeting of the Royal Society is the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the election of Joseph Banks, the distinguished naturalist and companion of Captain Cook in his first voyage of discovery, as president of the Society. Banks was elected a fellow in 1766, chosen president in 1778, and served in that office for a period of forty-one years. Those who comprised the pageant of science during his presidency, choosing names in a catholic sense and in order of years, included Count Rumford, Cavallo, Desaguliers, William Herschel (who communicated to Banks the name Georgium Sidus for the new planet), James Watt, Wollaston, Lavoisier, Volta, Davy, Cuvier.
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President of the Royal Society from 1778 until 1820.
- JOSEPH BANKS
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BANKS, J. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. Nature 122, 815–816 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122815a0
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