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Banksia ericfolia, specimen collected by Banks ...

Banksia ericfolia, specimen collected by Banks and Solander at Botany Bay in 1770

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The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust

[Banksia ericifolia NSW 364559]

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The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust

The Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust is a statutory body established under the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Act 1980. It is responsible for the management and stewardship of the Royal Botanic Garden, the Domain, the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan and the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah. The National Herbarium of NSW - centre for plant conservation & research - is located within the Royal Botanic Garden.

Endeavour

Built as a collier, Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour carried him around the world and up the east coast of Australia in 1768-71, before becoming a coal ship again.

Maiden, Joseph

Botanist, curator, writer and teacher, Joseph Maiden brought knowledge about Australia's plants into the public realm through his influence on the collections and programs of the Technological Museum and the Botanic Gardens and his emphasis on the creation of useful and practical science.

Botany

Visited by James Cook and Joseph Banks in 1770, but rejected as a site for the colony in 1788 by Arthur Phillip, Botany remained an important source of water and a site for varied industry throughout the nineteenth century, before becoming a transport hub in the twentieth. Throughout, a close-knit community has survived.

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