Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour

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GB 0248 DC 002/14/45a

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23 February 1919

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letter

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Balfour | Sir | Isaac Bayley | 1853-1922 | professor of botany, University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour in which he discusses a recent memorandum by German professors attacking the quality of British science which was signed by only 93 people. He has recently seen Sir David Prain who had met Massart and he had told Prain that there had been some indignancy in Germany concerning this document as it represented a small number of German scientists. He informed Prain that a second document had been drawn up which expressed the same sentiments but which had been signed by 3000 German scientists. Balfour tells Bower that Prain had received a copy of the document from Massart and had lodged a copy of it with the Royal Society. He had expressed the idea of also sending a copy to the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is warning Bower that this is about to happen in order to give him time to think what to do about the document. Signatories include several German botanists including Karl Immanuel Eberhard Von Goebel and almost all German physicists.

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour
Item Summary
Reference Code	GB 0248 DC 002/14/45a
Date(s)	23 February 1919
Extent and medium of the unit of description	1 letter
Name of creator	Balfour \| Sir \| Isaac Bayley \| 1853-1922 \| professor of botany, University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
Scope and Content
Scope and Content	Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour in which he discusses a recent memorandum by German professors attacking the quality of British science which was signed by only 93 people. He has recently seen Sir David Prain who had met Massart and he had told Prain that there had been some indignancy in Germany concerning this document as it represented a small number of German scientists. He informed Prain that a second document had been drawn up which expressed the same sentiments but which had been signed by 3000 German scientists. Balfour tells Bower that Prain had received a copy of the document from Massart and had lodged a copy of it with the Royal Society. He had expressed the idea of also sending a copy to the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is warning Bower that this is about to happen in order to give him time to think what to do about the document. Signatories include several German botanists including Karl Immanuel Eberhard Von Goebel and almost all German physicists.
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Subjects	Academic Disputes Botanists British/German Relations Professional Criticism Professional Interaction Protests Science
People	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 Massart \| fl1919 \| German scientist Prain \| Sir \| David \| 1857-1944 \| botanist and director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (England) Goebel \| Karl Immanuel Eberhard \| Von \| 1855-1932 \| German botanist
Businesses and Organisations	Royal Society \| c1645-: \| scientific society \| London (England) Royal Society of Edinburgh \| 1783-: \| scientific society \| Edinburgh (Scotland)
Places	Germany Great Britain
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