Baffin's Bay red snow fungus leader 'Beer Street'

'Beer Street'

Illustrating the laceration of cineritious substance caused by concussion

William Pitt the Younger

from Whitehall in the west

' and lower left [apparently in error] 'Fig 2

Baffin's Bay red snow fungus leader 'Beer Street'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. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del.'. Original: watercolour on paper. 1820