Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from William Henry Lang

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from William Henry Lang in which he mentions lecturing in morphology of [Pleridophyta] to a group of young women. He had only glanced at Sir Arthur George Tansley's 'Manifesto' but likes Bower's summary of it. He finds it striking that none of the signatories have tried experiments with a large class. In his opinion, the problem of this approach to physiology is the lack of attention to the idea of 'form'.

His other remarks concern Royal Society business, where he is to be attending a meeting of Council, and he has suggested Bower as a replacement for Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour on the Sectional Committee

• Botany
• Morphology
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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
• Bower | Frederick Orpen | 1855-1948 | regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
• Oliver | Francis Wall | 1864-1951 | Quain professor of botany, University College London
• Scott | Dukinfield Henry | 1854-1934 | president of the Linnean Society
• Tansley | Sir | Arthur George | 1871-1955 | plant ecologist
• Businesses and OrganisationsRoyal Society | c1645-: | scientific society | London (England)

• Royal Society | c1645-: | scientific society | London (England)