Robert Brown Joseph Banks


Connection to This Location
# 32 Soho Square Standing at 32 Soho Square, you're looking at the epicenter of British botanical science during the early nineteenth century, where Sir Joseph Banks—the renowned naturalist who sailed with Captain Cook and transformed the Royal Society into a powerhouse of scientific inquiry—provid...
Location
32 Soho Square, Westminster, W1
Inscription
Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820, President of the Royal Society, Robert Brown 1773-1858 and, David Don 1800-1841 botanists, lived in a house on this site, The Linnean Society met here 1821-1857