Correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower, Letters from Robert Stephen Adamson, T Anderson and letters relating to the nomination of Agnes Arber as President of Section K of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for a meeting in Edinburgh

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

Correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower, Letters from RS Adamson, T Anderson and letters relating to the nomination of Agnes Arber as President of Section K of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for a meeting in Edinburgh consists of:

• This subseries includes letters from Robert Stephen Adamson concerning a visit he is making to Glasgow in 1922, from T Anderson concerning job opportunities in agriculture and letters from several botanists concerning opposition to and support of Agnes Arber as the second woman President in a row of Secion K of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.(27 December 1918-25 May 1922)

• Academic Disputes
• Agriculture
• Botanists
• Botany
• Employment
• Male Dominance
• Meetings
• Nominations for Office
• Professional Associations
• Women in Science

• Adamson | Robert Stephen | 1885-1965 | botanist
• Anderson | T | fl 1917
• 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

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

• Edinburgh (Scotland)