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He retired towards the end of 1897, but was re-appointed 

 to the public service in charge of the Northern Division 

 during 1899. He communicated a good deal of useful 

 information concerning New Guinea to Australian news- 

 papers, particularly the Melbourne Argus and Age. 



Bauer, Ferdinand (1760 - 1826). 



In my "Sir Joseph Banks " (1909), I have given all the 

 details I could get together of the life and work of this 

 eminent botanical artist. [See also particulars in the same 

 work of his distinguished brother, Francis (1758 — 1810)]. 

 He was in the employment of Sir Joseph Banks, and was 

 the coadjutor of Robert Brown in Australia, 1800-5. Valu- 

 able supplementary information to that given above, will 

 be found in "Ferdinand Bauer's drawings of Australian 

 plants," by James Britten, in Journ. Bot., April 1909, p. 

 140. 



Lewin, J. W. (? L770 - 1819) See (1), p. 110. 



I have a list of such of Lewin's drawings referred to, 

 formerly the property of the late Hon. P. G. King, m.l.c. 

 They are also valuable because of their association with 

 Allan Cunningham. There are some details concerning 

 him in William Dixson's "Notes on Australian Artists," 

 Journ. Roy. Aust. Hist. Soc, V, 236, 1919). See also 

 various volumes Hist. Rec. N.S.W. and Hist. Rec. Austral. 



Austin, Robert. 



Mr. James Drummond reported on the collections of 

 plants made by Assistant Surveyor Robert Austin, dated 

 at "Hawthornden Farm (W.A.), April 16th 1855," pp. 

 272-3, Vol. 26 for the year 1856 (Journ. Roy. Geog. Soc.) I 

 am indebted to Mr. Thomas Gill, c.m.g., for this reference. 

 The plants were 54 in number, not in a good state of 

 preservation. The letter is, however, in general terms, 

 only two or three botanical names being given. The plants 



