Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Margaret Benson

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GB 0248 DC 002/14/65

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09 January 1919

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letter

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Benson | Margeret | 1859-1936 | professor of botany, Royal Holloway College

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Margaret Benson apologising for the delay in replying to Bower's letter and promising to send a copy of her paper as soon as she can. She suggests that Bower should look through it before he sees the specimens and that he should read a paper of hers which was published in the Annals of Botany Volume XVIII (1904) which describes the main characteristics of the sporangia which she also discusses in the new paper. She describes two new characteristics of the new sporangia which are that it has central loculi as well as peripheral and it underwent wet dehiscence and did not split septicidally. She states that she is looking forward to seeing Bower at Royal Holloway College soon.

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Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Margaret Benson
Item Summary
Reference Code	GB 0248 DC 002/14/65
Date(s)	09 January 1919
Extent and medium of the unit of description	1 letter
Name of creator	Benson \| Margeret \| 1859-1936 \| professor of botany, Royal Holloway College
Scope and Content
Scope and Content	Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from Margaret Benson apologising for the delay in replying to Bower's letter and promising to send a copy of her paper as soon as she can. She suggests that Bower should look through it before he sees the specimens and that he should read a paper of hers which was published in the Annals of Botany Volume XVIII (1904) which describes the main characteristics of the sporangia which she also discusses in the new paper. She describes two new characteristics of the new sporangia which are that it has central loculi as well as peripheral and it underwent wet dehiscence and did not split septicidally. She states that she is looking forward to seeing Bower at Royal Holloway College soon.
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Subjects	Academic Papers Botany Professional Interaction Scholarly Publishing Science Publishing Sporangium
People	Benson \| Margeret \| 1859-1936 \| professor of botany, Royal Holloway College Bower \| Frederick Orpen \| 1855-1948 \| regius professor of botany, University of Glasgow
Businesses and Organisations	Annals of Botany \| scientific journal Royal Holloway College \| 1879 - \| college \| London (England)
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