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Paper, 'Some experiments on the fungi which constitute the colouring matter of the red snow discovered in Baffin's Bay [Baffin Bay, Canada]' by Francis [Franz] Bauer in a letter to the Right Honorable Sir Joseph Banks

Reference number: PT/14/15

Date: 07 May 1820

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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/8/17.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some experiments on the fungi which constitute the colouring matter of the red snow discovered in Baffin's Bay. By Francis Bauer, Esq. F. L. S. In a letter addressed to the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. G. C. B. P. R. S. &c. &c'.

Written by Bauer at Kew Green. Read 11 May 1820.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/14/15
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07 May 1820
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21 pages
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Manuscript

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Franz Andreas Bauer

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Franz Andreas Bauer, Paper, 'Some experiments on the fungi which constitute the colouring matter of the red snow discovered in Baffin's Bay [Baffin Bay, Canada]' by Francis [Franz] Bauer in a letter to the Right Honorable Sir Joseph Banks, 07 May 1820, PT/14/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_14_15/paper-some-experiments-on-the-fungi-which-constitute-the-colouring-matter-of-the-red-snow-discovered-in-baffins-bay-baffin-bay-canada-by-francis-franz-bauer-in-a-letter-to-the-right-honorable-sir-joseph-banks, accessed on 11 December 2024

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