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Image number: RS.8697
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Baffin's Bay red snow fungus
Date
1820
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 254mm
width (painting): 180mm
width (painting): 180mm
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Description
Plate 17 from the paper "Some experiments on the fungi which constitute the colouring matter of the red snow discovered in Baffin's Bay", by Francis Bauer, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.110 (1820), pp.165-173. Five figures showing Bauer's attempts to grow algae in glass jars from specimens returned to England by Captain John Ross's expedition. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer del.". Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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