Catalogue of the holdings in The Natural History Museum (London) of the Australian botanical drawings of ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826) and cognaye materials relating to the Investigator voyage of 1801-1805

摘要

The completed Australian plant and fungal drawings made by Ferdinand Vauer (1760-1826) and now preserved in The Natural History Museum, London, are discussed in the light of cognate material preserved in the Museum, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Linnean Society of London, and the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. With unissued lithographs at the Museum, all are reproduced together here for the first time; 160 drawings and five lithographs have never been published before. The plants and fungi depicted are identified as far as possible, though some drawings are based on several elements, not merely single field drawings, and may represent more than one taxon. As with some of Bauer's Investigator fish drawings, some botanical drawings represent type material, that of Genoplesium baueri (Orchidaceae) being the holotype, that of Thysanotus volubilis (Laxmanniaceae) being the only surviving Investigator material of that taxon and therefore a good candidate for lectotype. Using a Kew manuscript, here identified as in the hand of Allan Cunningham, the drawings presented to the Admiralty, where one is now known to have been lost before Bauer left England in 1814, are, for the first time, distinguished from those in Bauer's own collection; they are now combined, with two others probably by John Curtis. Some of the 'duplicate' Bauer drawings were possibly finished in Sydney or on the voyage home in Investigator. Bauer's own publication, Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae of 1813-1816 is analysed in detail, the different states of some of the plates being explained. The Catalogue of drawings gives the currently accepted name and its place of publication, listed manuscript names, annotations on the drawing, a description of the plant or fungus as depicted, original discussion of the provenance of the drawing and details of any previous publication. Of Bauer's other published Investigator drawings and unissued lithographs discussed in Appendices, that of 'Antonia', i.e.Rhynchoglossum obliquum (Gesneriaceae) from Timor, was the basis for a previously unidentified plant used in Jacquin's Denkmal by Johann Knapp in 1822. In Appendix D(iv) plants named after Bauer are listed: he is commemorated in the names currently used for one genus and 19 species (one now extinct) of vascular plants from the western Pacific.