Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Duncan S Johnson

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Duncan S Johnson of John Hopkins University regarding the use of Cinchona, Jamaica by American and British botanists. He lists those who are there at the time of writing: William R Maxon and his assistant. Edward C Jeffrey may be there later in the year but perhaps not early enough to be there at the same time as John Mclean Thompson, who may therefore be there alone.

He goes on to reply to remarks Bower had made regarding prices and the post-war exchange rate. He hopes salaries for teachers may increase in both countries.

Johnson regrets Bower's cancellation of his trip to the eastern tropics and hopes he might manage to go there in the future. He also congratulates Bower on being elected President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and hopes it will not impinge on his freedom to travel to the eastern tropics. One of Johnson's students will be travelling to Java in July, following up on the introduction to tropical vegitation he has had in Jamaica.

He mentions that he uses Bower's The Botany of the Living Plant, (1919) as collateral reading for his students and promises to keep him informed about any further news on Cinchona.

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• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• Jeffrey | Edward C | 1866-1952 | plant morphologist, Harvard University
• Johnson | Duncan S | fl1914-1920 | professor of Botany, John Hopkins University
• Maxon | William R | fl1914-1920 | assistant curator, division of plants, Smithsonian Institution
• Thompson | John McLean | 1888-: | professor of botany, University of Liverpool

• Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1783-: | scientific society | Edinburgh (Scotland)

• Cinchona (Jamaica)
• Jamaica