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branches, but more especially natural history, has 

 nowhere received more uniform patronage than in 

 Germany. The splendid works of Jacquin, the cele- 

 brated botanist, who travelled for years at the public 

 expense, were given to the world at the cost of the 

 Emperor, and their author rewarded with an office 

 under his patron. No sooner were the enchanting 

 regions of Brazil opened to 'the researches of Euro- 

 pean naturalists, than a corps of savans were formed 

 at Vienna, completely supplied with every assistance, 

 and conveyed to Rio de Janeiro in ships of war, as 

 a fit retinue to attend the Archduchess of Austria, 

 then united to the King of Portugal. Another fact, 

 by which the comparison we are now making will be 

 better elucidated, regards the celebrated F. Bauer, 

 who, through the strong representations of Sir Joseph 

 Banks, was engaged as botanical painter to the ex- 

 pedition under Captain Flinders. Truly and faith- 

 fully did he perform his duties, and returned to 

 England with portfolios rilled with inimitable draw- 

 ings ; but our government thought themselves too 

 poor to follow up what they had so well begun : no 

 measures were taken to publish, or turn to any use, 

 what had thus been acquired ; Bauer was neglected, 

 and thrown upon his own resources. But this in- 

 justice to so distinguished a man was not viewed 

 with indifference by other nations : he was invited 



the March to Finchley to the then king of Prussia, in the same 

 spirit as an English writer would now do, if he selected as his 

 patron the emperor of China, little did he think that, in 

 1854, the then king would be the most munificent patron of 

 art and science in Europe. 



