novel, The Signature of All Things, and is a major character in Martin Davies' 2005 novel The Conjuror's Bird. A secondary school opened in Perth, Western Australia in 2015 named Joseph Banks Secondary College. Dispersal of Banks papers Following Banks's death in 1820 a "treasure-trove of letters and papers" was passed to Sir Edward Knatchbull, his wife's nephew. In 1828 the latter passed bound volumes of foreign correspondence to the British Library but retained the rest of the papers in the expectation that an official biography would be written. After the death of Knatchbull and his wife, the letters and papers were passed on to their son Edward Knatchbull Hugesson, 1st Baron Brabourne, who offered to sell them to the British Museum. However, in 1884 it declined to purchase them. Following that "notorious" decision the Agent General of New South Wales, Sir Saul Samuel, issued instructions for the purchase of a large portion of the papers, which now form part of the State Library of New South Wales's Brabourne Collection. The "large quantities of papers" which remained were then auctioned off at Sotheby's in London in March and April 1886. One of the successful bidders was E. A. Petherick. Many of those are now in the Petherick Collection at the National Library of Australia. During the twentieth century the National Library continued to purchase Banks's letters and papers when they came on the market. Online archive In his Endeavour journal, Banks recorded 30 years of his life. Letters, invoices, maps, regalia, and watercolour drawings have now been digitised on the State Library of NSW website. This rich research and educational tool accesses 8800 high-quality digital images. See also European and American voyages of scientific exploration List of Notable Freemasons History of Australia References Cited sources Further reading Primary resources Sutro Library, a branch of the California State Library. Sir Joseph Banks Collection, 1770-1812. State Library of New South Wales. Papers of Sir Joseph Banks and The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768–1771 National Library of Australia (NLA). Papers of Sir Joseph Banks Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Journal of a voyage to Newfoundland and Labrador commencing 7 April and ending 17 November 1766 Notebooks containing vocabularies of Tahitian languages and observations collected by Banks are held by SOAS Special Collections. Digitised items from the collection are available to view online here. Secondary resources Cameron, H. C. (1952) Sir Joseph