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RefNoPT/73/8/17
LevelItem
TitlePaintings, Baffin's Bay red snow fungus by Franz [Andreas] Bauer
Date[1820]
DescriptionPlate 17 containing five figures showing Bauer's attempts to grow algae in glass jars from specimens returned to England by Captain John Ross's expedition to Baffin's Bay [Baffin Bay, between Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada and Greenland]. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Botany / Biology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Some experiments on the fungi which constitute the colouring matter of the red snow discovered in Baffin's Bay' by Franz Bauer.

Read to the Royal Society on 11 May 1820.
Extent1p
FormatWatercolour
PhysicalDescriptionWatercolour on artists' paper
Dimensions254x180mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0128
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0013
RelatedRecordPT/14/15
URLDescriptionDigital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library
URLhttps://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8697
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7476Bauer; Franz Andreas (1758 - 1840)1758 - 1840
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