A new study reveals that Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, renowned botanists on Captain Cook's first voyage, heavily relied on Indigenous knowledge and names when documenting over 1,400 new plant species in the Pacific. Their field notes reveal a rich exchange between the scientists and local communities, with Indigenous names providing crucial insights and references for the botanists' work.
Joseph Banks introduces Omai, from Polynesia, to Daniel Solander in a painting by William Parry at the National Portrait Gallery, c1775-6. Joseph Banks introduces Omai, from Polynesia, to Daniel Solander in a painting by William Parry at the National Portrait Gallery, c1775-6.on his first voyage to the Pacific, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander disembarked from HMS Endeavour and made history as the first European botanists to explore the island of Tahiti.
Their groundbreaking discoveries filled seminal 18th- and 19th-century botany publications and had a profound impact on western science. But for centuries, the two scientists’ reliance on Indigenous expertise and names for their field notes has been overlooked.provided knowledge that helped Banks and Solander to identify and describe approximately 1,400 species of plants that were unknown to European scientists, research by a Cambridge University academic has revealed.
He found that Solander and Banks formulated many of the Latin names and descriptions of the new species they “discovered” using information they observed or gathered from Indigenous people.For example, Solander noted that children “suck out the sweet juice” from the elongated bud of a white flowering vine, now known as“He makes a specific reference to the elongated bud when describing the plant’s physical features,” said Rose.
History BOTANY INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE PACIFIC EXPLORATION JOSEPH BANKS DANIEL SOLANDER
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