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Sir Joseph Banks
(13 Feb 1743 - 19 Jun 1820)

English botanist and explorer.


Science Quotes by Sir Joseph Banks (1)

Mr Humphry Davy is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist; but if I might venture to give an opinion... he is rather too lively to fill the Chair of the Royal Society with that degree of gravity it is most becoming to assume.
Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Quoted in John Barrow, Sketches of the Royal Society (1849), 52.
— Sir Joseph Banks
Royal Society;Davy_Humphry


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