NAHSTE: Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour
Item Summary
Reference Code	GB 0248 DC 002/13/12
Date(s)	25 October 1914
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 welcoming Bower back to Glasgow and commiserating with him both on his experiences in the journey back from Australia and on the cancellation of his collecting trip. He remarks that people's thoughts must have been concentrated on the fight for national life rather than the topics of science and he tells Bower that 58 of Balfour's staff were off fighting.
Index
Subjects	Science Science in National Life Travel World War, 1914-1918
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 Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour