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Glasgow, 1820-1840. 
Fraser from Queensland, J. Drummond from South-West 
Australia, von Mueller from Victoria and tropical Australia, 
and many others. The articles headed ‘ Botanical Informa- 
tion * and c Notices of Books ’ are full of instructive information 
written for the most part by himself. 
Towards the end of his Glasgow life my father resumed 
a systematic study of ferns, which he had begun with Greville 
soon after his arrival there, the first result of which was 
the commencement of an ‘ Enumeration of all known Ferns/ 
published in the * Botanical Miscellany.’ The issue in parts 
of Hooker and Bauer’s * Genera of Ferns ’ was begun in 1838 ; 
it originated in his having been shown the beautiful analyses 
of many genera of the order by the veteran botanical artist 
Francis Bauer \ who offered the loan of these for publication 
to my father ; not that the order had in the meantime been 
neglected by him, as is proved by the numerous genera and 
species described and figured in his journals, in the * leones 
Plantarum ’ and other works, and by his publication of 
J. Smith’s { Genera of Ferns V As I propose to give in an 
appendix to this sketch of his life a complete account of my 
father’s works, I shall not further dwell here on those devoted 
to ferns. 
1 Francis Bauer, an Austrian by birth, came to England in 1788, and was 
through Sir Joseph Banks’s influence attached to the Royal Gardens, Kew, with 
the title of Botanical Painter to the King. He resided in a cottage on Kew Green, 
where I visited him with my father in 1835, when he showed us the original 
daguerreotype plates of Niepce. He died at Kew in 1840, aged eighty-two, in the 
enjoyment of a pension left him by Banks. A handsome tablet in Kew Church 
records his career, and a fine oil painting of him hangs in the Kew Gardens 
Museum, No. 1. His published works are not numerous ; the principal are, besides 
the Genera Filicum, Illustrations of Orchideous Plants, 20 plates, with a preface 
by Lindley ; Strelitzia depicta, with 4 plates ; and the plates (20) in Aiton’s 
Delineations of Exotic Plants cultivated in the Royal Gardens of Kew, a huge 
folio (1796). His brother Ferdinand, equally celebrated as a botanical artist, 
accompanied Brown in that capacity on Flinders’s survey of the coasts of Australia 
(1802-5). 
2 ‘An Arrangement and Definition of the Genera of Ferns, with Observations on 
the Affinities of each Genus,’ by J. Smith, Curator of the Royal Gardens, Kew 
(Journ. Bot., iv. 38-147 ; Kew Gard. Misc., i, 419, 659, ii. 378). 
