Correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower: letters relating to the chairs of botany at Liverpool and Edinburgh universities and to Tansley's 'Manifesto'

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Robert John Harvey-Gibson resigned from the Chair of Botany at the University of Liverpool in 1921 and Frederick Orpen Bower was involved in the selection of his successor. John McLean Thomson was appointed and filled the position from until 1921-1952.

In 1922 the Chair of Botany at the University of Edinburgh became vacant, following the death of Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, and again Bower was involved with candidates for that position.

Sir Arthur George Tansley advocated a change in teaching practice within botany, with more empasis given to morphology, which provoked much discussion and argument within the profession, to which Bower contributed.

The chair of Botany at Kings College, London was vacated by the retirement of William Beecroft Bottomley in 1921. Support from Bower was sought by two of the candidates.

Correspondence of Frederick Orpen Bower: letters relating to the chairs of botany at Liverpool and Edinburgh universities and to Tansley's 'Manifesto':

• letters relating to the chair of botany at Liverpool
• letters relating to the chair of botany at Edinburgh
• letters relating to Tansley's 'Manifesto'
• letters relating to the chair of botany at Kings College, London

• Appointment to Office
• Employment References
• Morphology
• Professional Criticism
• Professional Interaction
• Teaching

• Balfour | Sir | Isaac Bayley | 1853-1922 | professor of botany, University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
• Bottomley | William Beecroft | 1863-1922 | professor of botany, Kings College, London
• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• Harvey-Gibson | Robert John | 1860-1929 | dean, Faculty of Science, University of Liverpool
• Tansley | Sir | Arthur George | 1871-1955 | plant ecologist
• Thompson | John McLean | 1887-1977 | professor of botany, University of Liverpool