Correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower, letters from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour

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The correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower is arranged in alphabetical order. This subseries contains letters from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour who, as professor of botany at the University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, was one of Bower's oldest colleagues and friends and they corresponded regularly until his death in 1922.

Correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower, letters from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour consists of:

• This subseries includes letters from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour concerning Robert Chapman Davie and his applications for employment, meetings and membership of professional associations, his disapproval of Robert Kidston's claim to a Royal Medal following his collaborative work with David Thoams Gwynne-Vaughan and William Henry Lang, teaching methods in botany and class sizes, academic papers, the theory of natural selection, the death of Robert Chapman Davie and its effects on staffing, the state of botany in the south of Great Britain, the post war political and social upheaval in Britain, a memorandum by German professors which attacked the quality of British Science, his knighthood and his retirement and replacement (10 October 1917-17 April 1922)

• Academic Papers
• Applications for Positions
• Botanists
• Botany
• British/German Relations
• Evolution (Biology)
• Employment
• Natural Selection
• Professional Associations
• Professional Criticism
• Professional Recognition
• Science
• War, Cost of
• World War, 1914-1918

• Balfour | Sir | Isaac Bayley | 1853-1922 | professor of botany, University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• Davie | Robert Chapman | 1887-1919 | lecturer in botany, University of Edinburgh
• Gwynne-Vaughan | David Thomas | 1871-1915 | professor of botany, University of Reading
• Lang | William Henry | 1874-1960 | professor of natural history, University of Manchester

• Germany
• Great Britain