Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from George Adam Smith

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GB 0248 DC 002/14/431

Date(s)

28 September 1917

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letter

Name of creator

Smith | Miss | fl 1917

Scope and Content

Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Miss M Smith who is compiling a list of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker's memberships, honours and awards etc. She asks Bower for details of Hooker's 'Doctor's degree' from the University of Glasgow, which she thinks was in 1839. Sir David Prain has suggested to her that Bower will be able to provide the date and proper wording. The list will appear as an apendix to his Life, which should be published in the Autumn.

Smith also asks about a prize- winning essay by Hooker, An Essay on the Brain and Nerves, referred to by Bower in Frederick Wall Oliver's Makers of British Botany, (1913) She asks whether Hooker wrote it at school or at the University of Glasgow.

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University of Glasgow | 1451- : | university | Glasgow (Scotland)

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from George Adam Smith
Item Summary
Reference Code	GB 0248 DC 002/14/431
Date(s)	28 September 1917
Extent and medium of the unit of description	1 letter
Name of creator	Smith \| Miss \| fl 1917
Scope and Content
Scope and Content	Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Miss M Smith who is compiling a list of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker's memberships, honours and awards etc. She asks Bower for details of Hooker's 'Doctor's degree' from the University of Glasgow, which she thinks was in 1839. Sir David Prain has suggested to her that Bower will be able to provide the date and proper wording. The list will appear as an apendix to his Life, which should be published in the Autumn. Smith also asks about a prize- winning essay by Hooker, An Essay on the Brain and Nerves, referred to by Bower in Frederick Wall Oliver's Makers of British Botany, (1913) She asks whether Hooker wrote it at school or at the University of Glasgow.
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Subjects	Biography Degrees, Academic
People	Bower \| Frederick Orpen \| 1855-1948 \| regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow Hooker \| Sir \| Joseph Dalton \| 1817-1911 \| director of the Royal Gardens, Kew Prain \| Sir \| David \| 1857-1944 \| botanist and director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (England) Smith \| Miss \| fl 1917
Businesses and Organisations	University of Glasgow \| 1451- : \| university \| Glasgow (Scotland)
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