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Yes,on the Banks bio. Banks seems to have been a model at least in the
naturalist part part for Sir Joseph Blaine - Chief of Intelligence for
the Admiralty and Stephen's M (as in 007). O'Brian also did a bio of
Picasso which I found first rate. As O'Brian tells it, PP had a great
prescription for life: Get together with a lady, buy a castle, fill it
up with works, leave them and the house to the lady, find a new lady,
repeat as required. ;-)

Hewitt



On 3/16/10, Frank Reed  wrote:
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>
> Patrick, you wrote:
> " Nevil Maskelyne has been someone I have wanted to find out more about "
>
> In addition to the Howse biography, you should go have a look at google
> books and, to a lesser extent, archive.org. There are extensive historical
> materials available online that were practically non-existent just five
> years ago. There are actual articles and letters written by Maskelyne
> himself. Even more so for Cook and also Joseph Banks.
>
> Hey, speaking of Banks, has anyone else read Patrick O'Brian's biography of
> Joseph Banks? It's nothing stellar but certainly very enjoyable, and of
> course Banks was an incredibly important figure in British science and
> history in that period.
>
> -FER
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