Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was born on 13 February 1743 in Lincolnshire. His father, William Banks, was a wealthy landowner. As a child, he enjoyed the outdoors and developed a passion for natural ...

Men’s Wearhouse’s $1.2 billion turnabout offer for Jos. A. Bank Clothiers might have painted the smaller men’s retailer into a corner.After all, it was Jos. Bank’s idea to combine the two ...

In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes, the paintings lack the vitality and strength of ...

English naturalist Joseph Banks was the longest-serving president of the Royal Society, the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world. But before he served in that celebrated ...