Note 114 — Chapter XXII · BUCHAN AND ROSS

Sir John Ross was much hurt at the doubting remarks and criticisms respecting the brilliant crimson on his plate of the crimson snow. They still rankled 32 years afterwards when the present writer served with him, and he wrote an article on the subject in our Arctic periodical, the Aurora Borealis. Mr Bauer, of Kew Gardens, it appears, pronounced the crimson snow to be of the genus Uredo, allied to “smut” in wheat, and he grew some in snow. It was first green, then as bright a crimson as in Ross’s plate. Ross called it Uredo nivalis of Bauer in his 2nd edition.