Correspondence concerning the appointment of Agnes Arber as President of Section K of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for a meeting in Edinburgh: Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from EN Thomas

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from EN Thomas in which she expresses her agreement with Bower's views and states that Agnes Arber's nomination was a surprise to her. She expresses dissatisfaction with the nomination procedure and informs Bower that she had intended to raise the issue. She states that the matter is entirely in the hands of the recorder and the council but that she understood that the outgoing president was allowed to nominate a successor. She states that she had spoken to Miss Saunders who had agreed to support the nomination that Thomas was putting forward and that no other name had been mentioned between them so she was astonished and distressed at the nomination of Arber. She believes that the nomination was the wrong one and feels that the deviousness of the nomination is quite painful. She tells Bower that she would welcome any suggestions for the meeting.

• Academic Disputes
• Botanists
• Botany
• Feminism
• Male Dominance
• Meetings
• Nominations for Office
• Professional Associations
• Professional Criticism
• Professional Honours
• Professional Interaction
• Women in Science

• 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
• Sanders | Miss | botanist
• Thomas | EN | fl 1916 | head of botany, University of London, Bedford College

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

• Edinburgh (Scotland)