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Joseph Banks was a botanist. Because James Cook was under secret orders to find out as much as he could about the "great southern continent", if it existed, Banks's task was to collect specimens of new species of flora discovered, and to record observations about them.

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Q: Why did Sir Joseph Banks travel with James Cook on the Endeavour?
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