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cing it, accompany Sir Joseph Banks's Memoir on the Introduction 

 of that Disease into England, in the 2nd volume of the ' Transactions 

 of the Horticultural Society.' 



Before the close of the last century Mr. Bauer commenced a series 

 of drawings of Orchidece, and of the details of their remarkable struc- 

 ture, to which he continued to add, as opportunities offered, nearly 

 to the termination of his life. A selection from these, which form 

 one of the most beautiful and extensive series of his botanical draw- 

 ings, was lithographed and published by Professor Lindley between 

 the years 1830 and 1838, under the title of ' Illustrations of Orchi- 

 daceous Plants.' 



His other pubUshed botanical works are : 1 . The first part, published 

 in 1818, of ' Strelitzia Depicta,' a work intended to comprise figures 

 of all the known species of that magnificent genus ; 2. ' Microsco- 

 pical Observations on the Red Snow' brought from the Arctic Re- 

 gions by Capt. Ross, the globules contained in which, by some re- 

 garded as an Alga, he described in the 7th volume of the ' Quarterly 

 Journal' of the Royal Institution as a species of t/retZo ; 3. 'Some 

 Experiments on the Fungi which constitute the coloiu"ing matter of 

 the Red Snow,' published in the ' Philosophical Transactions' for 

 1 820 ; and 4. The Plates to the Botanical Appendix to Captain Parry's 

 first Voyage of Discovery, pubUshed in 1821. One of the last pro- 

 ductions of his pencil, illustrating the structure of a plant growing 

 at Kew which produces perfect seeds without any apparent action 

 of pollen, will appear in the forthcoming part of our Transactions. 



In the year 1816 he commenced lending the assistance of his 

 pencil to the late Sir Everard Home in the various anatomical and 

 physiological investigations in which that distinguished anatomist 

 was engaged ; and in the course of ten or twelve years furnished, in 

 illustration of his numerous papers in the ' Philosophical Transac- 

 tions,' upwards of 120 plates, which were afterwards reprinted with 

 Sir Everard's ' Lectures on Comparative Anatomy.' These plates, 

 which form together the most extensive series of his published works, 

 embraced a great variety of important subjects, chiefly in microscopic 

 anatomy, and afford abundant evidence of his powers of observation 

 and skill in depicting the most difficult objects. 



It is this rare and previously almost unexampled union of the ob- 

 server and the artist that has placed Mr. Bauer foremost in the first 

 rank of scientific draughtsmen. His paintings, as the more finished 

 of his productions may well be termed, are no less perfect as models 

 of artistic skill and effect, than as representations of natural objects. 



