Letter to Sir Arthur George Tansley from Frederick Orpen Bower

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Letter to Sir Arthur George Tansley from Frederick Orpen Bower regarding Tansley's 'Manifesto'. Bower is broadly in agreement with Tansley but believes the latter's case has been overstated. He disagrees with Tawnsley that morphololy should be subordinate to physiology. Bower had given a lecture in the latter as early as 1884 (perhaps earlier than Sir Francis Darwin) and states that both should be in coordinate positions. Furthermore he does not believe there is much need for the 'Manifesto'.

• Botany
• Morphology
• Physiology
• Professional Criticism
• Teaching

• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• Darwin | Sir | Francis | 1848-1925 | botanist
• Tansley | Sir | Arthur George | 1871-1955 | plant ecologist