Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Robert Kidston

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Robert Kidston thanking Bower for sending the reprint of an article from the Glasgow Herald. He had heard of Bower's article from 'a fellow I met in the street'.

Kidston's work on asteroxylon is progressing. He has found it difficult but far more interesting than rhynia. They have ahad a number of sections made, with more to come. Hemmingway is working on several pieces. Their knowledge of the plant is constantly increasing and he ahs a number of slides prepared to send to William Henry Lang.

He hopes that the Carnegie Trust Trustees will abandon their position regarding publication during the war.

• Palaeobotany
• Plants
• Research
• Scholarly Publishing
• World War, 1914-1918

• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• Kidston | Robert | 1852-1924 | honorary paleobotanist to the British Geological Survey
• Lang | William Henry | 1874-1960 | professor of natural history, University of Manchester

• Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | 1901-: | charitable organisation | Dunfermline (Scotland)