Papers of Frederick Orpen Bower

Most of the papers were found in a cupboard in Professor Malcolm B Wilkins office, Glasgow University Botany Department in 1970. They were transferred to the Glasgow University Archives Department soon after. The exceptions to this history are noted in the immediate source of acquisition section. There were subsequent deposits from Professor Charles Chesters of his correspondence with Professor Bower (DC2/15/42/1-11) and from Professor Alastair Wardlaw of Bower's lecture notes for 1911, lent to Professor Wardlaw's father who was assistant to Bower and subsequently undertook the revision of Bower's book Botany of the Living Plant , (1919)..

Deposit: Glasgow University Botany department: 1970

Deposit: (Additional deposit): Professor Charles Chesters

Deposit: (Additional deposit): Professor Alastair Wardlaw

The collection will remain unaltered in the short term although appraisal and listing to international standards is to be carried out as resources permit.

No accruals expected

The collection was listed at item level by the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre. Some minor alterations have been made at the University of Glasgow to bring the numbering into line with the other deposited collections. The original alphanumeric reference system has been replaced as follows: DC2/A/1 has been replaced with DC 002/12/1, DC 002/B/1 with DC 002/13/1, etc. Minor additions to the collection have also been made since the papers were first catalogued.

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No known copies.

Boney, Arthur D, Botany, (Unpublished)

Boney, Arthur D, Biography of Frederick Orpen Bower, ( ,Unpublished)

Thomson, RY, A Faculty for Science, A Unified Diversity: A Century of Science in the University of Glasgow, (Glasgow, University of Glasgow, 1993)

Neilson, JB, Fortuna Domus: A Series of Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow in Commemoration of the Fifth Centenary of its Foundation, (Glasgow, University of Glasgow, 1952)

Walton, John, Natural History

List of sources for the biographical history:

Gillispie, Charles C , Dictionary of scientific biography, vol ii, (United States, Scribner, 1972)

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopaedia Britannica, a new survey of universal knowledge, Vol 4, (Chicago, William Benton, 1964)The Concise Dictionary of National Biography, from earliest times to 1985, vol. ii and iii , (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992)

The creation of this description was assisted by funding from the Research Support Libraries Programme

Description compiled in line with the following international standards:

International Council on Archives Committee on Descriptive Standards, ISAD(G) General International Standard Archival Description Notes, 2nd edition2000

and

National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997