MEMOIR OF THE LATE FRANCIS BAUER. 91 



years 1830 arid 1838, under the title of " Illustrations of Orchidaceous 

 Plants." 



His other published 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. " Microscopical 

 Observations on the Red Snow" brought from the Arctic Regions by 

 Captain Ross, the globules contained in which, by some regarded as 

 an Alga, he described in the 7th volume of the " Quarterly Journal " 

 of the Royal Institution, as a species of Uredo ; 3. " Some Experi- 

 ments on the Fungi which constitute the colouring matter of the Red 

 Snow," published in the "Philosophical Transactions" for 1820; and, 

 4. The Plates to the Botanical Appendix to Captain Parry's first 

 Voyage of Discovery, published in 1S21. One of the last productions 

 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 the Linnsean Transactions. 



In the year 1816, he commenced lending the assistance of his pencil 

 to the late Sir Everard Home, in the various anatomical and physiolo- 

 gical 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 Transactions," 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 abun- 

 dant 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. Of 

 all his predecessors, Ehret alone approaches him in these particulars ; 

 among his contemporaries, none but his brother Ferdinand can be re- 

 garded as his equal. 



Mr. Bauer became a Fellow of the Linnsean Society in 1804, and of 

 the Royal Society in 1820. He died at his residence on Kew- Green 

 on the llth of December last, in the 83rd year of his age; and was 

 buried in the churchyard of that parish on the 16th of the same 

 month. 



