of his craftsmanship, aesthetic sense and scientific accuracy. Many of Bauer's watercolours are in the Sherardian Library of Plant Taxonomy at the University of Oxford, which has also digitised his botanical work Flora Graeca. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation F.L.Bauer when citing a botanical name. See also List of Australian botanical illustrators List of Austrian artists and architects European and American voyages of scientific exploration References Bibliography (see Stearn 1960) Blunt, W. & Steam, W., The Australian flower paintings of Ferdinand Saner, Basilisk Press: London, 1976. Lhotsky, J., Biographical sketch of Ferdinand Bauer, natural history painter to the expedition of Captain Flinders, R.N., to Terra Australis, J. Bot. 2: 106, 1843 Mabberley, David, Ferdinand Bauer, the Nature of Discovery, Merrell Holberton and the Natural History Museum, London, 1999, 128 pp. Mabberley, David J. and Moore, David T., Catalogue of the Holdings in the Natural History Museum (London) of the Australian Botanical Drawings of Ferdinand Bauer (1760–1826) and Cognate Materials Relating to the Investigator Voyage of 1801–1805, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, 29(2), 81–226, London, 1999. Norst, Marlene, Ferdinand Bauer: the Australian Natural History Drawings, British Museum of Natural History/Lothian, London/Melbourne, 1989, 120 pp. Norst, MJ., Austrians and Australia, Athena Press, Sydney, 1988 Watts, Peter, Pomfrett, Jo Anne and Mabberley, David, An Exquisite Eye: the Australian Flora and Fauna Drawings 1812–1820 of Ferdinand Bauer, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Sydney, 1997, 167 pp. External links Bauer, Ferdinand (1760–1826) National Library of Australia, Trove, People and Organisation record for Ferdinand Bauer View more biographical information about and digitized titles by Ferdinand Bauer in Botanicus.org Macquarie University – Dr. Marlene Norst demonstrating Ferdinand Bauer's drawings Botanists with author abbreviations 1760 births 1826 deaths Austrian illustrators Botanical illustrators Bird artists Botanical collectors active in Australia Botany in Western Australia Scientific illustrators People from Valtice 19th-century Australian painters