110 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
Feb. 1802, an honour was conferred upon him that promises 
to perpetuate his memory. “To the south-east of Franklin’s 
island, at the distance of eleven miles, there is a low projec- 
tion of the main land, to which the name of Point Brown was 
given, in compliment to the naturalist; and four leagues far- | 
ther, in the same line, a cliffy head received the appellation of d 
Cape Bauer, after the painter of Natural History.*” Such | 
names are frequently changed by subsequent navigators, and 
it was with the view to obviate this possibility, that Governor 
Franklin, during his stay at Tasman’s peninsula, issued orders 
that, in all official surveys, the original appellation, as be- 
stowed by the earliest authentic discoverers, should always 
be preserved. ; 
Although considerable delay took place ere Flinders’ voyage 
was published, still its intrinsic and geographical value was 
duly appreciated. Bauer bore his full share in contributing to 
the production of this work, and I incline to think that he 
assisted Mr. Westall in executing the landscapes, for I know 
of no book, (the Vues des Cordilléres even not excepted) where 
plants and groups of foreign trees, Seaforthia, Xanthorrhea, 
and Casuarina, are pourtrayed with such surpassing beauty 
and truth. In the appendix, the description of ten species of - 
plants are from Mr. Brown; these had been selected out of 
* the invaluable collection of drawings made by Bauer." kc 
is easy to perceive by a glance at these plates, that they were 
never executed at home, and from dried specimens. Figures - 
of Flindersia australis, Endesmia tetragona, and Franklandia 
fucifolia, are acknowleged by botanists to surpass every thing 
of the same kind. 
In the year 1813, Bauer began his Il/ustrationes Flore nove 
Hollandie; a work which did not meet with the encouragemen 
it deserved. The cause of failure lay wholly with our author 
himself; but the error which he committed was of the most 
honourable kind ; for it may be truly said that this publication 
* Voyage to Terra Australis, &c. By Capt. Flinders, 1818, vol. I. p.119 
