1841.] Linnean Society. 101 



May 4. 



Mr. Brown, V.P., in the Chair. 



Dr. Carl Ernst von Baer, His Serene Highness Maximilian Prince 

 of Wied-Neuwied, and Dr. Charles Bernhard Trinius, were elected 

 Foreign Members. 



Read the commencement of " Remarks on some new or rare Spe- 

 cies of Brazilian Plants." By Charles James Fox Bunbum^sq" 

 F.L.S. A^ W' 



May 24. 

 The Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 



This day, the Anniversary of the birth-day of Linnaeus, and that 

 appointed by the Charter for the Election of Council and Officers, the 

 President opened the business of the Meeting, and stated the num- 

 ber of Members whom the Society had lost during the past year. 

 The following is a list of the Members who have died within that 

 period, acccompanied with notices of some among them. 



Francis Bauer, Esq., F.R.S., SfC, was bom at Feldsberg, in 

 Austria, on the 4th of October, 1758. His father, who held an ap- 

 pointment as painter to Prince Lichtenstein, died while he was yet 

 a boy, and the care of his education devolved upon his mother. So 

 early was his talent for botanical drawing manifested, that the first 

 published production of his pencil, a figure of Anemone pratensis, L., 

 is appended to a dissertation by Storck ' de Usu Pulsatillse nigri- 

 cantis,' which bears date in 1771. 



In 1788 he came to England in company with the younger Jac- 

 quin, and after visiting his brother Ferdinand, who was then engaged 

 in completing the beautiful series of drawings since published in the 

 * Flora Grseca,' was about to proceed to Paris. But the liberal pro- 

 posals made to him by Sir Joseph Banks on the eve of his intended 

 departure, diverted him from this resolution, and induced him to 

 remain in England and to take up his residence in the neighbourhood 

 of the Royal Garden at Kew, in which village he continued to dwell 

 until the termination of his life. It was the opinion of Sir Joseph 

 Banks, that a botanic garden was incomplete without a draughtsman 

 permanently attached to it, and he accordingly, with the sanction of 



