Paintings, Baffin's Bay red snow fungus by Franz [Andreas] Bauer
Reference number: PT/73/8/17
Date: 1820
Description
Plate 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.
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- PT/73/8/17
- Earliest possible date
- 1820
- Physical description
- Watercolour on artists' paper
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- 1 page
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- Watercolour
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Franz Andreas Bauer, Paintings, Baffin's Bay red snow fungus by Franz [Andreas] Bauer, 1820, PT/73/8/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_8_17/paintings-baffins-bay-red-snow-fungus-by-franz-andreas-bauer, accessed on 07 November 2025
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Related Publications
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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 Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. G. C. B. P. R. S. &c. &c External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0128
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XII. 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 External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1820
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0013
Related Records
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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
Creator: Franz Andreas Bauer Reference number: PT/14/15
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
1807-1833 Reference number: PT/73 -
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 110
1819-1820 Reference number: PT/73/8
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Franz Andreas Bauer
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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