Correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower, William Gibson Farlow to RJ Harvey Gibson

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The correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower is arranged in alphabetical order. This sub-series includes correspondence with friends, colleagues and acquaintances from around the world

Correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower, William Gibson Farlow to RJ Harvey Gibson consists of:

• letters concerning world war one, American and International politics, fern specimens, academic publications, the financial position of the Annals of Botany, the work of Arthur Harry Church, the work of Robert Kidston, William Henry Lang and David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan on fossil ferns, the death of William Gibson Farlow and the possible sucessor to Sir David Prain at Kew (01 November 1917-15 July 1922)

• Accounts
• Applications for Positions
• Employment
• Ferns
• Fossils
• International Affairs
• Job Vacancies
• Plants, Collection and Preservation of
• Politics and Society in 20th century America
• Scholarly Publishing
• World War, 1914-1918

• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• Church | Arthur Harry | 1865-1937 | botanist
• Farlow | William Gibson | 1844-1919 | American botanist
• Gwynne-Vaughan | David Thomas | 1871-1915 | professor of botany, University of Reading
• Kidston | Robert | 1852-1924 | honorary paleobotanist to the British Geological Survey
• Lang | William Henry | 1874-1960 | professor of natural history, University of Manchester
• Prain | Sir | David | 1857-1944 | botanist and director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (England)

• Annals of Botany | scientific journal