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numerous sketches after the celebrated flower-pieces of Van 
Huysum, merely for his own improvement mechanical in the | 
part of the art; it is easy to perceive how he attained such 
inimitable truth in his performances, for he sought not to a 
idealize nature, but to seize the ideal features of nature. And | 
we think we may venture to point to the Salvia pomifera, Mo- 
rina Persica, and Saccharum Ravenne, as patterns of botanical | 
iconography, which, though executed long ago, in an early 
part of the work, remain unsurpassed to the present day. 
But even before the Flora Greca was published, so early as 
year 1801, we find the merits of our friend fully acknowleged, 
and himself appointed Natural History Draughtsman to the. 
expedition to "Terra Australis, commanded by Captain Flin- 
ders, of “ H. M. S. Investigator.” I am enabled, from letters 
in my possession, to state what were the liberal terms granted 
to Bauer. His salary was £300 a year, with rations for him- 
self and servant. The E. I. Company having contributed 
£1200 towards the expenses of this expedition, the share 
which Bauer received, enabled him to make his outfit as 
artist, very complete. Itwas farther granted, by the Lords. 
of the Admiralty, that all drawings executed, which were not 
required for publication in any work connected with.the expe- 
dition, should be the artists own property, as well as the 
specimens collected by him, except those that should go to 
the British Museum. It is not, for a moment, my intention 
to follow our enterprising traveller through the different 
stages of this famous expedition, recorded as its events a 
by the ablest pens, and well known to all our readers who 
feel an interest in such subjects ; but from Bauer's own letters 
I glean the following particulars. 
During his excursions from False Bay to Table Mountam, 
and those at King George's Sound, until the first arrival ot 
the * devesligaton® at Port Jackson, Bauer had completed, VP 
A" rus c" 1802, 350 sketches of plants, and 100 of 
sc a S Mee. the latter place for Torres’ Straits, 
of July that his collection then com 
prized seven hundred drawings, which he had left for safety 
