Biographical entry: Banks, Sir Joseph
Summary
Reports, correspondence. Report concerning Aboriginals and fauna of New Holland, including Port Jackson, King George Sound, Keppel Bay and the Gulf of Carpentaria, n.d. Author not stated. Contains details of anthropometry carried out in the Gulf of Carpentaria and Keppel Bay. Vol.3 A.78
Letter, P.G. King to Sir Joseph Banks, 21 July 1805. Reports another ship wrecked in Torres Strait; recommends the route if buoys and pilots were provided from some nearby settlement, but until this is done the passage is extremely dangerous. Vol.7, King 1788-1805, p.266. MITCHELL: Banks Papers-Braborne Collection, A.78.