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in the house of the Governor. This astonishingly rapid 
increase might seem almost incredible in any artist of less 
ability than our friend; but such were the skill and facility to 
which he had attained, that he had only (so to speak) to 
transcribe nature, and his transcripts were ever alike faithful 
and elegant. 
I possess, moreover, two letters of his, one written from 
the east coast of New Holland, when the “ Lady Nelson” left 
the * Investigator,” and the other, at the period when the 
latter vessel had been condemned, and Captain Flinders was 
on his way to England. In the latter communication, which 
‘is not dated, but probably written in the middle of the year 
1803, Bauer states, that between the period of his starting 
from and his return to Sydney, he had executed designs of 
500 species of plants, and 90 of animals; the latter chiefly 
birds. He complains, in this and former communications, 
that the wet state of the cabins in the “ Jnvestigator," by 
injuring all his paper, had hindered the perfect execution 
of his drawings. Captain Flinders having decided to go 
back to England, Mr. Robert Brown and Mr. Bauer awaited 
his return in Australia; and during this period, Ferdinand 
visited Norfolk Island, and spent eight months there, collect- 
ing those materials from which Endlicher has been subse- 
quently enabled to compile his Flora Norfolkica.* 
And here I shall conclude my motice of the part which 
Ferdinand Bauer bore in the expedition of the “ Investigator,” 
and proceed to that period when Flinders published the War- 
rative of his voyage. The high opinion which the Commander 
entertained of the subject of our memoir, appears from many 
passages of this work. In several instances, where Brown 
was otherwise engaged, Bauer went to investigate portions 
of the coast, and in different cases, Captain Flinders speaks of 
them conjointly, as “ Botanists ;” a juxtaposition, than which 
nothing can be more flattering to Bauer. But on the 5th of 
* “ Baueri in colligendis stirpibus industris, in desiccando dexteritati et 
divino plane in pingendo ingenio debetur.”—Endlicher. Preface. 
