Stag's Horn Fungus Product:Fine art poster Firemen fighting the blaze at

Firemen fighting the blaze at the Cotton's Wharf Fire

John Fryer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697

the chauffeur of the Earl of Sandwich

Plan of Greenwich Park

Stag's Horn Fungus Product:Fine art poster Firemen fighting the blaze atPlate 2 figure 1 from the paper 'An account of a new species of fungus', by John Martyn, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 43 (1744) pp. 263 264. The specimen, classified by John Martyn as 'Boletus caule ramose', was most likely Stag's Horn fungus, [Xylaria hypoxylon]. An endorsement verso 'Jan 24 1744 45' indicates that this painting was shown to Fellows of the Royal Society at a meeting of the Royal Society on 24 January 1745.