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plants, and 100 of animals, etc. On quitting the latter place for 

 Torres Straits, he writes on the 20th of Jul}^ that his collection 

 then comprised seven hundred drawings, which he had left for 

 safety in the house of the Governor at Sydney. 



Lhotsky possessed two letters of his — one written from the east 

 coast of New Holland, when the "Lady Nelson " left the " Investi- 

 gator," 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 communi- 

 cations, that the wet state of the cabins in the "Investigator," 

 by injuring 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, collecting those materials 

 used by Endlicher " Baueri in colligendis stirpibus industriae, in 

 desiccando dexteritati et divino plane in pingendo ingenio 

 debetur" (Endlicher's Preface). 



At length he determined to withdraw to his native land, taking 

 with him his most extensive collections, drawings of more than 

 :2000 species of plants, several hundred sketches of animals, a 

 very valuable herbarium and collection of skins, the whole 

 occupying 14 large cases, with which he set sail from England in 

 August, 1814. 



The liberality with which Ferdinand Bauer had been treated 

 by the English Government, in whose service he had remained, 

 finishing the plates illustrative of the expedition up to the year 

 1813, enabled him, on his return to Austria, to purchase a small 

 house at Hitzing, near Vienna, adjacent to the large Botanic 

 Garden of Schonbrunn. Here he worked very hard in executing 

 And completing his drawings of New Holland plants and animals, 



