The John Bargrave Collection

Mr. Banister's work in the natural history of Virginia was supported financially, at least in his last three or four years, by subscriptions raised by such friends of botany as Martin Lister, Hans Sloane, Leonard Plunkenet, Bishop Henry Compton, Samuel Doody, James Petiver, and others. Certainly, Banister's work was highly (and deservedly) admired by these men, who discussed his communications and studied his specimens together, shared them with others, such as John Ray and Jacob Bobart, laid them before the Royal Society, and published such accounts of them as appeared in Dr. Plunkenet's Phytographia, John Ray's History of Plants, the Philosophical Transactions, and some of Mr. Petiver's earlier works. (ibid., 330)