Letters relating to Abercrombie Anstruther Lawson

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GB 0248 DC 002/13/229

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23 March 1916-30 October 1916

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letters

Name of creator

Lawson | Abercrombie Anstruther | 1870-1927 | professor of botany, University of Sydney

Scope and Content

Letters relating to Abercrombie Anstruther Lawson include a letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Lawson enclosing his account of the gameophytes of the ferns Tmesipteris and Psilotum (not attached) and asking Bower to submit it to the Royal Society of Edinburgh for publication. He remarks that he had followed Bower's suggestion to delay sending the paper until the joint paper by William Henry Lang and Robert Kidston had appeared but Lawson states he has waited 3 months and there has been no sign of the paper. He informs Bower that he had asked for leave from his post in order to enlist for military service but had been refused by the University of Sydney. Also includes a letter from WP Cullen to Lawson regarding his request for leave which was refused on the grounds that the training he was providing to medical students was a vital contribution to the war effort. Includes a third letter from A Forster to Lawson informing him that he had been elected an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales and asking him to signify in writing his acceptance of the election.

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Letters relating to Abercrombie Anstruther Lawson
Item Summary
Reference Code	GB 0248 DC 002/13/229
Date(s)	23 March 1916-30 October 1916
Extent and medium of the unit of description	3 letters
Name of creator	Lawson \| Abercrombie Anstruther \| 1870-1927 \| professor of botany, University of Sydney
Scope and Content
Scope and Content	Letters relating to Abercrombie Anstruther Lawson include a letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Lawson enclosing his account of the gameophytes of the ferns Tmesipteris and Psilotum (not attached) and asking Bower to submit it to the Royal Society of Edinburgh for publication. He remarks that he had followed Bower's suggestion to delay sending the paper until the joint paper by William Henry Lang and Robert Kidston had appeared but Lawson states he has waited 3 months and there has been no sign of the paper. He informs Bower that he had asked for leave from his post in order to enlist for military service but had been refused by the University of Sydney. Also includes a letter from WP Cullen to Lawson regarding his request for leave which was refused on the grounds that the training he was providing to medical students was a vital contribution to the war effort. Includes a third letter from A Forster to Lawson informing him that he had been elected an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales and asking him to signify in writing his acceptance of the election.
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Subjects	Academic Papers Enlistment Ferns Gameophytes Honorary Membership Professional Recognition Scholarly Publishing War Effort World War, 1914-1918
People	Bower \| Frederick Orpen \| 1855-1948 \| regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow Cullen \| WP \| fl1916 \| chancellor, University of Sydney Forster \| A \| fl1916 \| secretary, Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales Kidston \| Robert \| 1852-1924 \| honorary paleobotanist to the British Geological Survey Lang \| William Henry \| 1874-1960 \| professor of natural history, University of Manchester Lawson \| Abercrombie Anstruther \| 1870-1927 \| professor of botany, University of Sydney
Businesses and Organisations	Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales \| scientific society \| Australia Royal Society of Edinburgh \| 1783-: \| scientific society \| Edinburgh (Scotland) University of Sydney Australia \| 1858-: \| university \| New South Wales (Australia)
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