Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from William Henry Lang

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from William Henry Lang wishing Bower well for his trip to Australia for the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He gives some general news; he talks of David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan's appointment to the University of Reading, his family and his work. He has finished the paper on the fern Helminthostachys and it is now in the hands of Francis Wall Oliver. He is now working on Bryophyta.

• Appointment to Office
• Employment
• Ferns
• Scholarly Publishing
• Social Interaction

• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• Gwynne-Vaughan | David Thomas | 1871-1915 | professor of botany, University of Reading
• Lang | William Henry | 1874-1960 | professor of natural history, University of Manchester
• Oliver | Francis Wall | 1864-1951 | Quain professor of botany, University College London

• British Association for the Advancement of Science | c1850-: | scientific society | London (England)

• Australia