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MR. FRANCIS BAUER'S SALE. 



We find that the effects of this lamented artist are to be 

 sold by auction on Wednesday, November 24th, by order of 

 his Executors ; and we invite the attention of our readers to 

 the fact. The inimitable skill of Mr. Bauer as a delineator 

 of flowers is well known from report : few persons however 

 have enjoyed the advantage of studying the unrivalled speci- 

 mens which his pencil produced. The sale now announced 

 will disperse among the lovers of art all that remains which 

 the public can acquire, and in a few days the British Museum 

 will be the only public institution where they can be examined. 

 Even now the sketches and drawings announced for sale are 

 very few in number, not exceeding forty lots, which compre- 

 hend a few hundred sketches and finished drawings : they 

 will however be found to comprehend a mass of invaluable 

 facts observed by Mr. Bauer during his long life, and bearing 

 upon many interesting parts of Botany and Vegetable Physi- 

 ology. We observe that in addition to the drawings of Mr. 

 Francis Bauer are a good many by Ferdinand Bauer, whose 

 skill as an artist ranked still higher than that of his brother. 



Enchiridion Botanicutn exhibens classes fy ordines Plantaram accedit nomen- 

 clator generum et officinalium v. usualium indicatio. Auctore Stephano 

 Endlicher, M.D. 8vo. Black and Armstrong. 



This important work is an admirable accompaniment to 

 the author's Genera Plantarum, already noticed in our last 

 and preceding volumes, 1839, (p. 40, and 1840, p ; 31), and 

 completed a lew months since. It is an Introduction to the 

 study of Systematical Botany, upon the plan of our own Intro- 

 duction to the Natural System, written in Latin, in a pure 

 style, and explaining the author's views upon arrangement, 

 and the affinities of genera up to the latest period. Each 

 article comprehends — 1. a general description of the order of 

 plants treated of ; 2. a list of the genera and their synonyms 

 which it includes ; 3. a view of its natural affinities ; 4. a 

 sketch of the geographical distribution of the species ; and 

 5. a very full account of the uses to which the species are 

 applied in medicine or otherwise. The work is preceded by 

 a brief view of the system of arrangement adopted by the 



