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Ferdinand Bauer’s field drawings of endemic Western Australian plants made at King George Sound and Lucky Bay, December 1801 – January 1802. I

Disegni e schizzi a matita di Ferdinand Bauer riguardanti piante dell’Australia occidentale eseguiti attorno a King George Sound e Lucky Bay, dicembre 1801 – gennaio 1802. I

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Abstract

Thirty-five field drawings of Western Australian endemic plants made by Ferdinand Bauer, natural history artist on Flinders’sInvestigator voyage (1801–1803), are published for the first time. In this, and a subsequent paper, surviving drawings made at King George Sound and Lucky Bay December 1801 – January 1802 (the first Bauer made in Australia) are identified and discussed, leading to an interpretation of the highly sophisticated colour-code chart he used as a field aid.

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Trentacinque disegni a matita di piante endemiche dell’Australia sudoccidentale eseguiti da Ferdinand Bauer, illustratore scientifico durante il viaggio della naveInvestigator del capitano Matthew Flinders (1801–1803) vengono pubblicati qui per la prima volta. In questa pubblicazione ed in un’altra che seguirà, vengono identificati e discussi i disegni giunti a noi, tra quelli eseguiti nella zona di King George Sound e Lucky Bay (dicembre 1801 fino a gennaio 1802, i primi disegni di Bauer in Australia); essi permettono l’interpretazione della scala di colori altamente sofisticata usata da Ferdinand Bauer come supporto all’attività in campo.

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Abbreviations

BM:

British Museum

W.A.:

Western Australia

N.S.W.:

New South Wales; Botanical districts of the extratropical regions of Western Australia

An:

Austin

Av:

Avon

Co:

Coolgardie

Da:

Darling

Ir:

Irwin

Wa:

Warren

St:

Stirling

Ey:

Eyre

(C):

coastal or near coastal distribution

Rech. Arch.:

Recherche Archipelago

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  1. Royal Botanic Gardens, Mrs Macquaries Road, 2000, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    David J. Mabberley

  2. Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Via Giorgieri, 11, 34127, Trieste

    Erika Pignatti-Wikus

  3. Archiv, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Burgring, 7, 1014, Wien, Austria

    Christa Riedl-Dorn

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Mabberley, D.J., Pignatti-Wikus, E. & Riedl-Dorn, C. Ferdinand Bauer’s field drawings of endemic Western Australian plants made at King George Sound and Lucky Bay, December 1801 – January 1802. I. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei 11, 69–109 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02904376

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