FERDINAND BAUER’S DRAWINGS OF AUSTRALIAN PLANTS 14] 
From the former, which is not easily accessible, I extract such 
Lytle reap as are connected with Ferdinand’s work on Australian 
plants :— 
‘So early as the year 1801, we find the merits of our friend 
fully acknowledged, and_ himself appointed Natural History 
Draughtsman to the expedition to Terra Australis, commanded 
‘Investigator,’ by injuring all his paper, had hindered the perfect 
execution of his drawings. Captain Flinders having decided to go 
back to England, Mr. Robert Brown and Mr. Bauer awaited his 
would appear from a note in Konig and Sims’s Annals of 
Botany, ii. 594 (1806), that it was in contemplation to publish the 
botanical drawings in a work for which Robert Brown was to 
supply the text: the passage runs :— 
‘We are happy to find that Mr. Brown and Mr. Ferd. Bauer 
their indefatigable zeal and the talents by which they are so 
eminently distinguished ; the former as one of the most philoso- 
