Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer describing the impact of the war in his area, where garrisons are stationed, hospitals for the wounded have opened and every able man from his village has volunteered for service. He describes the slaughter of young men as terrible and states that there is hardly a big house in the country which isn't in mourning. He discusses botanical news, informing Bower that William Henry Lang asked him to give an address in Manchester on Botany and the Empire, a huge subject which he feels himself unable to tackle. He also mentions the role of science in national life remarking that the debate on this will have to wait until the end of the war.

• Botany
• Professional Interaction
• Science in National Life
• War, Cost of
• World War, 1914-1918

• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• Lang | William Henry | 1874-1960 | professor of natural history, University of Manchester
• Thiselton-Dyer | Sir | William Turner | 1843-1928 | botanist and director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (England)

• Manchester (England)