NAHSTE: Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Isaac Bayley Balfour

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Isaac Bayley Balfour
Item Summary
Reference Code	GB 0248 DC 002/12/9
Date(s)	11 October 1912
Extent and medium of the unit of description	1 letter
Name of creator	Balfour \| Sir \| Isaac Bayley \| 1853-1922 \| professor of botany, University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
Scope and Content
Scope and Content	Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour acknowledging receipt of a copy of 'The Quest of Phyletic Lines' and receipt of fruits of Pretrea which he finds interesting on account of their adaptations. Here the plants reproduce the features of the seeds of the fern Hakea platysperma.
Index
Subjects	Botany Ferns Plants
People	Balfour \| Sir \| Isaac Bayley \| 1853-1922 \| professor of botany, University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh Bower \| Frederick Orpen \| 1855-1948 \| regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Isaac Bayley Balfour