 His most celebrated works in Latin are "Descriptio Iconis Pelvis Feminae" (1816), "Osteographia Piscium" (1822), "Epidemium quae anno 1826 urbem Groningam afflixit" (1826) and "De Natura Hominis Liber elementarius" (1827).This last work, which was to have formed a complete body of anatomy, was left incomplete by the author's death.Bakker became a correspondent of the Royal Institute, predecessor to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1812.