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When his father died in 1761, Banks was only eighteen years old.
Many young men in his position would lead a cosy life, but young Banks had an appetite for knowledge.
Despite his wealth, he worked to make a career in science.
He made a first journey to study wild plants in 1766.
His next expedition was the great voyage with James Cook to Oceania.
In 1768, the Royal Navy appointed James Cook as the commander of the Endeavour to take members of the Royal Society on an expedition to Tahiti.
According to the instructions given to Captain Cook,
the expedition had three goals.
The primary goal was to study the passing of the planet Venus across the sun.
This would give astronomers a change to calculate the distance between the earth and the sun.
Secondly the purpose of the expedition was to record, classify and describe all plant and animal life observed during the trip.
Thirdly, Captain Cook received secret instructions to search for an unknown southern continent.
As astronomy was one of the most important branches of science,
it was the British government that paid for all the equipment and expenses for that of the expedition.
Since the government would not pay for such a new field of science as botany, Joseph Banks,
at the age of 25, had to supply about£10,000 of his own money to equip the expedition.
On their three-year voyage, Joseph Banks did not only study and describe new plants he found,
but also looked out new economic species: plans that could be grown in England or other parts of the world to produce crops that could be sold.
Banks was the first to move crops from one continent to another on a large scale,
helping to develop local economies with these new imports.
Some plants that were spread over the globe in this way include cocoa, hemp and tea.
The Endeavour, returned to England in 1771.
The voyage had been a great success.
Wonderful discoveries had been made of strange new lands, cultur
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