New room aims to raise profile of Sir Joseph Banks.

From: Horncastle News (Horncastle, England) | Date: April 10, 2008 | Copyright information

A GROUP set up to celebrate the life and achievements of Sir Joseph Banks have set up a research room with help from Lincolnshire County Council.

It will allow the Sir Joseph Banks Society to initiate its own projects and further expand its focus of Sir Joseph Banks - a botanist, explorer and a patron of the sciences.

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