Draft letter to British Navy Office from Sir Joseph Banks, 30 April 1810, concerning the employment...
Draft letter to British Navy Office from Sir Joseph Banks, 30 April 1810, concerning the employment of Robert Brown, and original reply from Navy Office, also concerning Ferdinand Bauer, 17 May 1810
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30 April 1810-17 May 1810
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SAFE/MLMSS 8005 (Safe 1/462)
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0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript
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These two letters, on paper watermarked 1809, document the support provided by Sir Joseph Banks as he supervised the work being done by Robert Brown and Ferdinand Bauer in publishing the botanical specimens collected during Flinders' Investigator voyage.
1. Draft letter (1 page) with handwriting of Robert Brown and Sir Joseph Banks, undated....
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Draft letter to British Navy Office from Sir Joseph Banks, 30 April 1810, concerning the employment of Robert Brown, and original reply from Navy Office, also concerning Ferdinand Bauer, 17 May 1810
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Purchased from Maggs Bros Ltd London, July 2010
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Sir Joseph Banks arranged for the appointments of Robert Brown as botanist and Ferdinand Bauer as botanical artist on Matthew Flinders' Investigator voyage, 1801-1803. Brown and Bauer spent a further two years in Australia, returning to Britain in 1805. By then, Brown had collected some 6000 specimens in Australia and Bauer had made some 1540 drawi...
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SAFE/MLMSS 8005 (Safe 1/462)
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nGm4a5yY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nGm4a5yY
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916112
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