Correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower 1917-1922

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Throughout his career Frederick Orpen Bower exchanged letters with botanists, and others interested in botany, from all over the world. Some of the letters were professional, mainly requesting and giving samples of ferns or relating to the work of Section K (botany) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science or relating to publishing his own works or journals, and some of the letters are personal, in which he continues acquaintences and friendships with colleagues and ex-students such as Abercrombie Anstruther Lawson and David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan. Most of this collection of letters documents his research into ferns from 1917-1922.

Correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower 1917-1922 consists of:

• Correspondence, professional and personal including correspondence relating to the nomination of Agnes Arber as President of Section K of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1917-1922)

• Botany
• Ferns
• Professional Assistance
• Professional Associations
• Scholarly Publishing

• Arber | Agnes | 1879-1960 | nee Robertson | researcher in plant anatomy, Newnham College Cambridge
• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• Lawson | Abercrombie Anstruther | 1870-1927 | professor of botany, University of Sydney
• Gwynne-Vaughan | David Thomas | 1871-1915 | professor of botany, Queen's University Belfast

• British Association for the Advancement of Science | 1831-: | scientific society | London (England)