g vi i i A ppendix A . 
1838 - 40 . Genera Mlieum, or Illustrations of Ferns and other 
allied genera, from the original coloured drawings of Francis 
Bauer Esq., Botanic Painter to His Majesty, with additions and 
descriptive letter-press, by Sir W. J. Hooker, K.H., &c., royal 
8vo, with 126 coloured plates illustrating 135 genera, by W. Fitch. 
Dedicated to his Grace John, Duke of Bedford. This work, 
which is unique in point of artistic representation of Fern analyses, 
appeared in parts. It is really as regards the plates more the 
work of Fitch than of Bauer, and it is to be regretted that the 
artist's initials do not appear on these. Bauer’s original drawings 
for the work are preserved in the British Museum, accompanied 
with the following note by Mr. Carruthers, F.R.S., written when 
that gentleman was Keeper of the Botanical Department : — ‘ The 
original drawing of Tab. XXIV is wanting. The drawings for 
Tab. XLI-XLIX and LII-CXX were made by Mr. Fitch, who 
lithographed 1 2 the whole work.’ Mr. Edmund Baker, Assistant 
in the Department, who gave me the above information, has 
kindly supplied me with a list of Bauer’s drawings, with the 
dates of their execution (1833-6), and the sources of the specimens 
figured, of which twelve are from the Royal Gardens, Kew, and 
one, Asplenium Rula-mararia, from Kew Churchyard (where it 
does not now exist) ; the remainder are presumably from her- 
barium specimens. Of Fitch’s original drawings I have found 
no trace ; they were no doubt made from analyses prepared by 
my father. Of the whole 135 genera depicted, I think that 
seventy-eight are by Fitch; and one of the most interesting 
features of the work is the marvellous power this artist exhibited 
in adopting so successfully Bauer’s style 3 and treatment of his 
subjects (widely different from his own), that it is impossible to 
distinguish his work from that of his predecessor. 
1 For a notice of Bauer’s career, see p. xliii. 
3 A few of the plates were zincographed, but by far the greater number were 
printed from the stone by Messrs. Allan and Ferguson of Glasgow. 
3 To truthful delineation and colouring, perspective of every organ of a plant, 
and power of seizing its salient characters of habit, &c., Fitch added a marvellous 
rapidity in execution. In all these qualities but the last, both Francis and 
Ferdinand Bauer were his equals, and they added microscopic labour over the 
minutest details of colour, surface, and vestiture, thus reproducing not merely the 
likeness but almost the specimen itself, at the expense of as many days as it took 
Fitch hours to depict it. 
