Correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower, Sir David Prain to Christina Richardson

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The correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower is arranged in alphabetical order. This subseries consists of correspondence with friends, colleagues and acquaintances from around the world.

Correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower, Sir David Prain to Christina Richardson consists of:

• letters, Sir David Prain to Christina Richardson, and covers such topics as world war one, academic papers and the invitation extended to Bower to give the Hooker Memorial Lecture in 1917, identification of ferns, the importation of academic journals from Germany during world war one, organising financial aid for a colleague who had suffered a paralytic stroke, employment, arrangements for the Fourth International Botanical Congress and its eventual postponement because of the war, an incident in which the police were called because a window was broken in North Berwick by a golf ball. (08 February 1910-21 March 1917)

• Academic Papers
• Botany
• Criminal Investigation
• Employment
• Ferns
• Ill Health
• Lectures and Lecturing
• Professional Associations
• World War, 1914-1918

• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• Prain | Sir | David | 1857-1944 | botanist and director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (England)
• Prain | Margaret | fl1916 | wife of David Prain
• Prankerd | TL | fl1916 |
• Rendle | Alfred Barton | 1865-1958 | keeper of the department of botany, British Museum
• Richardson | Christina | fl1914 |

• Fourth International Botanical Congress | scientific conference |

• Germany
• North Berwick (Scotland)