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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
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    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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