THE BANKSIAN ARTISTS. 
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Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826). 
The following biographical notes are taken from Britten and Boulger> 
p. 12:— 
Born at Feldsberg, Austria, 20 Jan., 1760; died at Hietzing, Vienna, 17 March, 
1826. Accompanied Sibthorpe to Greece, 1784. Flinders’ Expedition, 1801-5. 
“ Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae,” 1813. Lambert’s “ Pinus,” 1810-37. 
Lindley’s “Digitalis,” Pritz. 17; Jacks., 398; Xich. Illust. vi, 838; Ann. and 
Mag. iv (1840), 67; Proc. Linn. Soc., i, 1839, 39; Journ. Bot., 1843, 106. 
On the Australian expeditions of the “ Investigator,” Bauer and 
Robert Brown necessarily worked a great deal together, since one 
was the botanist and the other the botanical draughtsman. 
Writing to Banks, 12th December, 1804, Brown says* * * § : he did not 
go to Van Diemen’s Land with Brown in December, 1803 and 1804. 
During last winter ((1804) Bauer was “ uncommonly fortunate in the 
detection of new species of Orchidese. A very few days before my 
return to Sydney he embrac’d an opportunity of visiting Norfolk 
Island, where he still remains.” Particulars of his sojourn there, 
taken from Lhotskv’s account, will be found in mv^ “ Flora of Norfolk 
Island.”t 
Brown, writing to Sir J. E. Smith, 12th January, 1806, saysj : 
Bauer “ has made about 1,600 drawings, all of them accompanied 
by minute dissections.” 
Following is Brown’s list of the same given by Banks§ : — 
Sketches of plants made on the coasts of New Holland 
and New South Wales ... ... ... ... 1,541 
Do do Norfolk Island ... ... 80 
Do do Timor ... ... ... 60 
I have already touched, under Brown, on the number of drawings 
by Ferdinand Bauer of the “ Investigator ” expedition, and the 
following copy of a letter from Bauer, kindly communicated by Mr. 
F. ^I. Bladen, refers to the time Banks was supervising Bauer’s work 
in England on behalf of the Admiralty!! ^ — 
“ Bauer's Catalogue of Drawings.” (No date). Mr. Bauer has the honor to 
submit to the Hon. Sir Joseph Banks a Catalogue^ of the finished Drawings made 
by him from the Sketches he collected in New’ South Wales in the Voyage of His 
Majesty’s Ship “ Investigator.” 
* Hint. Rec., V, 510. 
t Proc. Linn. Soc., X.S.W., 1904, p. 778. 
j Hint. Rec. vi., 11. 
§ Ih., p. 18. 
II See the following MSS. volume a* Kew: — “Bauer, Ferdinant. Enumeration of plants drawn 
by Ferdinand Bauer, and forming three volumes, in the Library of the Admiralty (now in the 
British Museum. Botanical Department, South Kensington), compared by Mr. E. G. Baker, 1888. 
W. B. H(emsley). 4to.” 
I have a copy ol the catalogue, but have not reproduced it. 
See also Endlicher, .S. " Prodromus florae norfolkicae sive catalogus stirpium . ... a 
F. Bauer coUectae et depict*, <tc. Vindobonae, 1833. 8vo.” 
See also Bindley, John. — " DijUalium monographia .... ad icones F. Bauer, penes 
W. Cattley. Londini, 1821.” Fol. 
