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Sir Joseph Banks |
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| From 1768 to 1771 Sir Joseph Banks circumnavigated the globe as a member of British explorer Captain James Cook’s expedition. Banks’s collection and classification of biological specimens during the expedition helped establish botany as an academic discipline. | ||||||
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