Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Sir Donald MacAlister

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Sir Donald MacAlister concerning John McLean Thompson. He remarks that Thompson's experience was disconcerting but that the experiment was worth making and that his courage should be admired. He states that he is glad to know Thompson is coming back and that he will be much more useful at the University of Glasgow than in Cosham.

• Professional Interaction

• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• MacAlister | Sir | Donald | 1854-1934 | chancellor of Glasgow University
• Thompson | John McLean | 1887-1977 | professor of botany, University of Liverpool

• University of Glasgow | 1451- : | university | Glasgow (Scotland)

• Portsmouth (England)