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of the red snow discovered in Baffin’s Bay. 
I immediately poured off the water, and filled the glass 
again with snow, in the same manner as before, and exposed 
it in the open air, where it remained until the morning of 
the 17th of December, when a general thaw had begun ; 
on examination I found the snow in the glass was not quite 
dissolved, but was a lump of ice, perforated, and full of cells, 
like a honeycomb, and the mass of fungi was raised in little 
pyramids; see Fig. 3. 
From the 17th of December till the 28th, the weather 
continued very mild, and we had no snow till the morning 
of the 28th ; on that day I filled the glass again with fresh 
snow ; but perceiving a slight increase in a very small por- 
tion of fungi that were accidentally smeared on the corner 
of the mouth of the glass, when on the 13th of December 
I took out some of the sediment for examination, and sunk 
the small glass, with its contents, into a larger cylindrical 
glass, also filled and pressed with snow, to afford to that 
portion of fungi room for increasing and spreading in the 
snow ; and in that state I exposed the whole in the open 
air. 
From the 28th of December, 1819, to the 10th of January, 
1820, the cold and frost continued very severe, but on the 
latter day, after the glass had been buried fourteen days 
under the snow, I took it out, to see what change might have 
taken place during that time ; on clearing away the external 
snow and ice, I found the appearance of the contents of the 
small glass, exactly as represented in Fig. 4,. 
The snow was frozen to a hard mass of ice, which was 
beautifully perforated and full of small cells, and the whole 
mass of fungi was raised in a pyramidal form, almost to the 
