Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from John Christopher Willis

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from John Christopher Willis who sends Bower a reprint of his last paper (not attached) which he says is more or less the one he gave [at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science] in Manchester though he believes that people did not realise what it meant at the time. He claims that Bower will find that if he tests any flora or genus of moderate range that he can "simply scoop up results with a spade". He tells Bower that he is looking at New Zealand flora now and that the results were coming out arithmetically as they did for Ceylon. He remarks that the same was true for the first animal species he tested. He hopes to have material ready for the Annals of Botany and the Linnean Society. He tells Bower that he has moved into his new house in Cambridge and invites Bower to stay and remarks that the fourth edition of his dictionary was currently going through the press. He tells Bower that it was a lot of work and included a lot of changes which has made the book almost completely different.

• Academic Papers
• Animals
• Biology
• Botany
• Darwin, Backlash to
• Evolution (Biology)
• Natural Selection
• Plants
• Scholarly Publishing
• Social Interaction

• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• Willis | John Christopher | 1868-1958 | director of the botanic gardens, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

• Annals of Botany | scientific journal
• British Association for the Advancement of Science | c1850-: | scientific society | London (England)
• Linnean Society | 1788-: | scientific society | London (England)

• Manchester (England)
• New Zealand
• Sri Lanka