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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Joseph Stalin robbed banks when he was fifteen to support revolutionary struggle.
Sir Joseph Banks became unofficial director and the subsequent fame of the botanic gardens is largely due to him.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Then, astrologer Joseph Banks has a column on Dining with a Capricorn.
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Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant
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Sir Joseph Banks of Kew gardens, having heard of these peonies from earlier travelers to the orient, had commissioned a doctor with the British East India Company to purchase and bring back a tree peony to England.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Joseph that are going to Oregon and California but thousands of them it is a sight to see the tents and wagons on the banks of the river and through the country they are as thick as camp meeting tents 20 or 30 miles and some say for 50 miles.
This Banks Memorial Lecture is given in honour of Sir Joseph Banks the world famous plant collector and is the centrepiece of the RNZIH Conference each year.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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After Joseph Banks stormed out of the expedition because of what he regarded as the inadequacy of the accommodation on board, the German scientist Johann Reinhold Forster and his young son, Georg, were appointed.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Joseph Banks Rhine introduced a statistical approach to the very new study of parapsychology, orthodox scientists were able at least to express their willingness to consider the paranormalists' claims.
Naturalist Joseph Banks, botanist Daniel Solander and the crew spent 48 days exploring the area and collected over 180 botanical specimens new to science.
The Banks Archive Project based at the Natural History Museum is assembling copies of all the extant letters of Sir Joseph Banks and is publishing them in themed volumes.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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SIR Joseph Banks Nature Park remains closed more than 18 months after Bathurst City Council resolved to revert the park to natural woodland.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Sir Joseph Banks also knew William Bligh through their association with Captain Cook, and Banks recommended Bligh to head the expedition because of his navigational skills.
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