Banks, Sir Joseph (1744‒1820)

Banks, Sir Joseph, a zealous naturalist, particularly in botany; a collector, in lands far and wide, of specimens in natural history; left his collection and a valuable library and herbarium to the British Museum; president of the Royal Society for 41 years (1744‒1820).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)