Baffin's Bay red snow fungus Saint Anne A 1913 Thames coach

A 1913 Thames coach

View of shop front with figures on Aldersgate Street

'Cobden's Logic'

he discovered that a flame enclosed inside the fine mesh does not ignite firedamp (methane and other flammable gases) thus preventing explosions

View of the Tower from Davis' Wharf with vessels on the River Thames

Baffin's Bay red snow fungus Saint Anne A 1913 Thames coachPlate 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