Ferdinand Bauer News Today

The Austrian born brothers, Franz and Ferdinand Bauer, are widely acclaimed as the greatest botanical artists of all time.

An impressive collection of sketches, paintings and manuscripts from the HMS Investigator voyage of 1801-1805, including work from Ferdinand Bauer and Matthew Flinders, can be found in the Library.

Today in History, 17 July: Mahatma Gandhi, the renowned leader of nonviolent resistance, left South Africa after successfully leading campaigns of passive resistance against discriminatory laws imposed on the Indian community.

Armed with new technology, botanists are proposing what was once thought impossible: reviving long-lost plant species by using seeds from dried specimens in collections. The challenges remain daunting, but researchers are now searching for the best de-extinction candidates.
 


Native vegetation blocks the birds’ ability to see approaching predators

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A lecture by Harold White Fellow, Angus Trumble, at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 16 April, 2003

Delve into our collections to discover flowers, gardens and wilderness through history.