THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Series One: The Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820

Part 3: Correspondence and Papers relating to Voyages of Discovery,

1743-1853, from the British Library, London

CONTENTS OF REELS

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Add. MS 8960 Endeavour register - Cook, Cook’s 1st Voyage, 1768-71
Add. MSS 8961-62 Resolution log - Cook, Cook’s 2nd Voyage, 1772-75

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Add. MS 13880 Minerva journal - Price, surgeon, transport voyage to NSW, 1798-1800
Add. MS 13976 Dolphin account of South Sea Islands discovered by Wallis, 1766-68 etc.

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Add. MS 15508 Endeavour drawings - Buchan, Miller et al. Cook’s 1st Voyage, 1768-71
Add. MSS 15509-12 Sir Lawrence drawings - James Miller, John F Miller, J Clevelly Jr., artists, Banks’s
voyage to Iceland, 1772

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Add. MS 15716 Tula journal, Biscoe, voyage to the South Seas, 1830-33
Add. MS 17227 Discovery sketches - Webber, artist, Cook’s 3rd Voyage, 1776-81
Add. MS 17552 Chatham bill of lading and orders - Vancouver, Voyage with Discovery, Vancouver voyage, 1791-95
Add. MS 17623 Gallego - voyage to South Seas, 1586
Add. MS 17693 Cook - Newfoundland charts, 1764-67
Add. MS 18390 Mungo Park - concerning his death
Add. MS 21239 King George log - Woodcock, 1785-88
Add. MS 22613 Franklin, Arctic expedition, 1825-26
Add. MS 30262 Misc. letters including items by Cook, 1776 and Mungo Park, 1803-05

REEL 40

Add. MS 30369 Rattler journal - Lt Colnett, whaling protection voyage, 1793-94
Add. MS 33230 Misc. letters including Mungo Park’s last letter
Add. MS 33494 Banks - catalogue of his Library
Add. MS 35141 Blossom journal - Lt Peard, voyage to Bering Straits and Pitcairn Island, 1825-28 including Bounty narrative of Adam/Smith
Add. MS 35300 Barrow - Drawings by WA & S Samuel et al. regarding the Macartney Embassy to China,
1792 and a mission to South Africa, 1801-02

REEL 41

Add MS 35301 Barrow - Records of Arctic exploration
Add MS 35302 Barrow - autobiography

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Add MS 35303 Barrow - On the Royal Society and the Royal Society Club, 1806-48
Add MS 35304 Barrow - Franklin Search Expedition, North Star (Ross/Saunders), 1849-50
Add. MS 35305 Barrow - Franklin Search Expedition Pioneer (Osborn), 1852-53
Add. MS 35306 Barrow - Franklin Search Expeditions, Resolute/Assistance/Intrepid/Pioneer (Austin), 1850; Lady Franklin (Penn), 1850 Prince Albert (Forsyth), 1850; Isabel/Phoenix/Talbot (Inglefield/Jenkins), 1852-57; Prince Albert (Kennedy), 1851-52; letters of Sir John Ross and others, 1850-57

REEL 43

Add. MS 35307 Barrow - Franklin Search Expeditions, Resolute/North Star/Assistance (Belcher/Osborn/Kellett/Pullen/Richards/M’Cormick), 1852-54

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Add. MS 35308 Barrow - Franklin Search Expeditions, Enterprize (Collinson), 1850-75; Investigator (McClure), 1855-60; Plover (Maguire/Simpson), 1849-52; Rattlesnake (Trollope), 1853-57
Isabel (Kennedy/Bardin), 1853-59; Thomas (Snow), 1853; and other items
Add. MS 35309 Barrow - Franklin Search Expeditions, Resolute/North Star/Assistance (Belcher/Osborn/Kellett/Pullen/Richards/M’Cormick), 1852-54 and letters from Osborn and others

REEL 45

Add. MS 37232 Misc. letters including naval papers (items by Nelson et al. and Banks’s papers regarding Mungo Park’s second expedition up the Niger, 1805
Add. MS 38421 Papers relating to the Mint & Coinage (including Banks letters), c.1700-1823

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Add. MS 38422 Papers relating to the Mint & Coinage (including Banks letters), c.1700-1823

REEL 47

Add. MS 38423 Papers relating to the Mint & Coinage (including Banks letters), c.1700-1823

REEL 48

Add. MSS 38424-25 Papers relating to the Mint & Coinage (including Banks letters), c.1700-1823

REEL 49

Add. MSS 38681-82 Letters & Orders re Channel Fleet,  Admiral George Darby, 1780-82, includes letters from Samuel Wallis
Add MS 39672 Misc letters including one from Bligh to Banks concerning Trafalgar, 1805
Add. MS 40666 Franklin correspondence, 1804-25, includes letters whilst serving on the Bellerophon and Bedford

REEL 50

Add. MS 42714 Resolution account - Midshipman Elliott, Cook’s 2nd Voyage, 1772-75 and sketches of Waterloo battlefield
Add. MS 45712 Banks - catalogue of Icelandic books
Add. MS 46868 Letters of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, superintendent of Malta dockyard, 1832-38, and letters of Franklin whilst on the Rainbow and as Governor of Van Diemen’s Land
Add. MS 47106 Egmont naval papers - Dolphin log - Molineux, Mate, Wallis voyage, 1766-68

REEL 51

Add. MS 47107 Egmont naval papers - Desiree log - Midshipman Perceval, Azores,1813
Add. MSS 47108-09 Egmont naval papers - Britomart orders and letters - Perceval (Egmont), English Channel, 1816-18
Add. MS 47768 Franklin correspondence, 1832-37
Add. MS 47769A Franklin correspondence, 1833-74

Egerton 3009 Misc Letters including notes by Banks and Burney; and a letter-journal of Mungo Park regarding his second Niger expedition, 1805

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