Banks, Joseph

Volta, A., On the electricity exited by the mere contact of conducting substances of different kind, letter to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, K.B.P.R.S., Philos. Trans., 1800, Vol. 2, plate XVII, p. 430 (1800). 

Goux, Jean-Joseph, and Thomas DiPiero. Banking on Signs. Diacritics 1%, no. 2, Pecunia non olet (Summer 1988) 15-25. 

Because Cavendish was so reclusive, many of the important details about his life remain unknown, and his biographers have generally focused on his scientific work. However, there are numerous stories about his eccentricities. For example, he avoided conversation with his housekeeper and communicated with her by leaving notes. Once when he was at the home of Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society, a foreign visitor appeared. He had come to London expressly to meet Cavendish, whom he considered to be one of the greatest natural philosophers of his time. At his first opportunity, Cavendish fled and had himself driven home in his carriage. 

From Edwwd Smith s Life of Sir Joseph Banks ... 

Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820. English naturalist and collector of plants and insects President of the Royal Society from 1778-1820. His collections of books and natural history specimens were bequeathed to the British Museum. Lady Banks used to assist him m giving frequent receptions for the scientists... 

In the following year Hatchett was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1798 he analyzed an earthy substance, sydneia, which Josiah Wedgwood had found in New South Wales and another specimen of it provided by Sir Joseph Banks (5). This, according to Wedgwood, was composed of a fine white sand, a soft white earth, some colourless micaceous particles, and some which were black. Hatchett found it to consist of siliceous earth, alumine, oxide of iron, and black lead or graphite and concluded that the Sydneian genus, in future, must be omitted in the mineral system. ... 

On February 21, 1809, Hatchett became a member of the famous Literary Club which had been founded in 1764 by Dr. Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds (51). As treasurer of the club, Hatchett prepared a brief historical account of it, which appears in Boswell s Life of Johnson (25). The club also included, among others, Edmund Burke, Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Edward Gibbon, Adam Smith, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Charles Blagden, Sir Humphry Davy, Dr. W. H. Wollaston, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Dr. Thomas Young. 

If a date were to be placed on the birth of electrochemistry, that date would be March 20, 1800. This is the date of a letter Volta sent to Sir Joseph Banks, president of... 

Academy of Science, founded in 1660 the forty-two-year presidency of Joseph Banks. Banks had been an autocratic... 

Stiglitz, Joseph E. (1999). Two Principles for the Next Round or How to Bring Developing Countries in from the Cold. Paper presented at the conference organized by unctad and the World Bank, Geneva, Switzerland, 21 September. 

Representing Lippo Bank and its agent James Riady, in the proceedings was attorney Joseph Russoniello, now in private practise. Russoniello told the Court that his clients, Lippo Bank (which had in the interim become defunct) through the offices of its successor entity, were amenable to accepting the terms of the plea agreement.36... 

Volta pile — On March 20, 1800, Alessandro - Volta, then professor of the University of Pavia sent a letter in French from Como, Lombardy to Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) the president of the Royal Society of London, for publication. He described a device - that he called artificial electrical organ referring to the natural electrical organ of the torpedo or electric eel - producing perpetual electrical motion. The paper was read at the Society on 26 June and published in the September issue of the Philosophical Transactions. The whole paper appeared in English in the Philosophical Magazine the same year [i, ii]. 

In the decades after the death of the long-serving President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, in 1820, scientific reformers were in the ascendant, led by gentlemanly devotees of the sciences with strong links to the ancient uni-... 

Gavin de Beer, The Sciences Were Never at War (New York Thomas Nelson, 1960) H. B. Carter, Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820 (London British Museum, 1988). 

Above Sir Joseph Banks. At the time that the Royal Society was investigating the alchemical claims of James Price, Sir Joseph was president of the Society. 

Humphry Davy was not only an exceptionally gifted scientist, he also had remarkable social talents, and it is typical of him that already as a young man his career was sponsored by such luminaries in British science as Sir Joseph Banks, Henry Cavendish and Benjamin Thompson (Count von Rumford). He was also a great communicator, who from an early age made a name for himself in the popularization of science. At the same time, he had an intuition in scientific matters that allowed him to select problems that would prove to be fruitful and important. His work on electrolysis using Alessandro Volta s newly invented pile is a good example of this. He was convinced that in electrolysis the current induced the separation of compounds into their elementary components rather than the synthesis of new substances, as many scientists believed at the time. 

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