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what chiefly animated their courage and enthusiasm, was the f 
personal aequaintance of Mr. F. Bauer, who had accompanied 
Capt. Flinders in his expedition to New Holland, and whom 
they had seen actually engaged in delineating the extraordinary ` 
productions of those distant regions." T 
In 1819, Bauer again visited England, in order to see his 
brother, and the other valued friends, with whom a compa- 
nionship of nearly 30 years had quite assimilated his ideas and 
feelings. He soon afterwards returned to Vienna, and con- 
tinued to devote himself closely to painting, most of his pro- 
ductions being destined to go to England, where, besides the 
works above mentioned, were published his plates for the 
late Mr. A. B. Lambert's work on Pinus, Lindley's Digi- 
talis, &c. i tU, 
Thus continually engaged in the furtherance of his che- 
rished science, and undertaking, even at this advanced period 
of life, botanical excursions into the Alps of Austria and 
Styria, and making collections of the plants which he there 
found, Bauer was seized, in the year 1825, by illness, which 
terminated his existence on the 17th of March, 1826, in the 
66th year of his age. The bulk of his collections was be 
queathed to his legal heirs ; but the two volumes of miniature 
paintings of Australian plants and animals, he left to his bro- 
ther Francis, by whom they have been recently sold to Mr. 
Robert Brown. His herbarium and skins of animals and birds, 
with the sketches illustrative of them, were purchased for the 
Imperial Museum of Vienna, and a great many drawings, 
well as copies of the Illustrationes, were still, in the year 18 
in the possession of his brother Francis at Vienna. 
r Ferdinand Bauer, as his conduct through life proved him 
and his private letters attest, was a plain straightforward màn» 
full of application and energy. His temper was most kiné, 
and hardly had he obtained his appointment in the «c Investi- 
gator,” than he hastened to aid most liberally some of his i s 
digentrelations. He ever preserved a deep sense of gratitude 
towards those friends and patrons, who had done him ser i 
