James Paradis

James Paradis author of T.H. Huxley: Man’s place in Nature, is now working on an edition of Huxley’s letters. He teaches in the Department of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Letter

Joseph Banks

18 June 1981

SIR: Allow me to respond to Averil Lysaght’s recent criticisms (Letters, 3 September) of the review in which I treat Charles Lyte’s Sir Joseph Banks: 18th-Century Explorer, Botanist and Entrepreneur.Dr Lysaght’s first criticism is that I have not read the title of Warren Dawson’s calendar (The Banks Letters …, 1958), because it lists the BM and the BM (Natural History) as archival centres...

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