. Science-gossip . e received, muchagainst his own inclination, a Government pensionof £300 a year, which, with his plain style of lifeand few necessities, amply placed him in comfortto the end of his splendid life. Sir Joseph Banks, , (1743-1820). The chief picture at the National Portrait Galleryof Sir Joseph Banks is most pleasing. It represents,in oil colours, by Thomas Phillips, , a fine,stout, elderly gentleman of rubicund in a dark grey, rather loosely made frockcoat, he is wearing sash and Order of the figure is life-size, in sitting position, c
. Science-gossip . e received, muchagainst his own inclination, a Government pensionof £300 a year, which, with his plain style of lifeand few necessities, amply placed him in comfortto the end of his splendid life. Sir Joseph Banks, , (1743-1820). The chief picture at the National Portrait Galleryof Sir Joseph Banks is most pleasing. It represents,in oil colours, by Thomas Phillips, , a fine,stout, elderly gentleman of rubicund in a dark grey, rather loosely made frockcoat, he is wearing sash and Order of the figure is life-size, in sitting position, cut offabove the knees. On his right-hand side isa table with a book and MS. lettered On theDiseases of Whea—, by Sir Jos. Ban—. Hisright hand is supported on a walking stick, whichpasses in front of the lettering of the MS. referredto. His hair is white, and he wears a short collarand white stock with frilled shirt. Sir Joseph was the only son of William Banks,of Revesby Abbey, in Lincolnshire, but was born in. Sir Joseph Banks, Argyle Street, London. His education was care-fully tended ; first he had a private tutor, then toHarrow School, thence to Eton, when thirteenyears old. Up to that period all teachinghad been most irksome, and grave fears werefelt for his future educational prospects. Sud-denly he conceived a passionate fondness for SCIEXCE-GOSSIP. flowers, and thence to the study of botany. Hisfirst book was Gerards Herball, which he foundin a mutilated condition in his mothers dressing-room. Lea\ing Eton at eighteen he was enteredas a gentleman commoner at Christ , in 1760. There his botanical studies ledhim on to other branches of natural history. Heapphed for and received permission, as there werethen not any lecturers on the subject at Oxford, toestablish a lecturer on botany. This he did at hisown expense; %isiting Cambridge for the purposeand bringing back with him Israel Lyons,astronomer and botanist. This he was enabled todo in consequenc
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