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MR. FRANCIS BAUER'S SALE. 
We find that the effects of this lamented artist are to be 
sold by auction on Wednesday, November 24th, by order of 
his Executors ; and we invite the attention of our readers to 
the fact. The inimitable skill of Mr. Bauer as a delineator 
of flowers is well known from report: few persons however 
have enjoyed the advantage of studying the unrivalled speci- 
mens which his pencil produced. The sale now announced 
will disperse among the lovers of art all that remains which 
the public can acquire, and in a few days the British Museum: 
will be the only public institution where they can be examined. 
Even now the sketches and drawings announced for sale are 
very few in number, not exceeding forty lots, which compre- 
hend a few hundred sketches and finished drawings: they 
will however be found to comprehend a mass of invaluable 
facts observed by Mr. Bauer during his long life, and bearing 
upon many interesting parts of Botany and Vegetable Physi- 
ology. We observe that in addition to the drawings of Mr. 
Francis Bauer are a good many by Ferdinand Bauer, whose 
skill as an artist ranked still higher than that of his brother. 
Enchiridion Botanicum exhibens classes § ordines Plantarum accedit nomen- 
elator generum et offcinalium v. usualium indicatio. Auctore Stephano 
Endlicher, M.D. 8vo. Black and Armstrong. 
This important work is an admirable accompaniment to 
the author’s Genera Plantarum, already noticed in our last 
and preceding volumes, 1839, (p. 40, and 1840, p. 31), and 
completed a few months since. It is an Introduction to the 
study of Systematical Botany, upon the plan of our own Intro- 
duction to the Natural System, written in Latin, in a pure 
style, and explaining the author's views upon arrangement, 
and the affinities of genera up to the latest period. Each 
article comprehends—1. a general description of the order of 
plants treated of; 2. a list of the genera and their synonyms 
which it includes; 3. a view of its natural affinities; 4. a 
sketch of the geographical distribution of the species ; and 
5. a verv full account of the uses to which the species are 
applied in medicine or otherwise. The work is preceded by 
a brief view of the system of arrangement adopted by the 
