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English botanist (1855–1948)
Frederick Orpen Bower
FRSE
FRS
[1] (4 November 1855 – 11 April 1948) was an English
botanist. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1891.
[1] He was awarded the
Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1909 and the
Darwin Medal of the
Royal Society in 1938.
[2] He was president of the
British Association in 1929–1930.
[3]
Life
Bower was born in
Ripon in
Yorkshire the son of Abraham Bower and Cornelia Morris, sister of the eminent botanist,
Francis Orpen Morris. He was educated at
Repton School in
Derbyshire before studying at
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA in 1877.
In 1880, he acquired a position as assistant lecturer in botany at
University College, London under
Thomas Huxley.
[4] In 1882, he moved to
South Kensington as a full Lecturer in botany. During this period he spent time at
Kew Gardens studying with
Dukinfield Henry Scott. In 1885, he was awarded the chair in botany at the
University of Glasgow, and was a professor there until 1925.
Bower never married. When he retired he returned to Ripon, and died there in April 1948.
Memberships
Honours and awards
- He was elected president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh for 1893–95.
[5]
- He served as vice president of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh 1910 to 1916 and president from 1919 to 1924, receiving the
Neill Prize in 1925.
[6]
Publications
- Practical Botany for Beginners (1894)
- The Origin of a Land Flora (1908)
- Plant Life of Land (1911)
- The Ferns 3 vols. (1923–28)
- Plants and Man (1925)
- Size and Form in Plants (1930)
- Primitive Land Plants (1935)
[4]
- Sixty Years of Botany in Britain, 1875-1935 (1938)
[7]
Archives
The archives for Frederick Orpen Bower are maintained by the
Archives of the University of Glasgow (GUAS).
References
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a
b
c
Lang, W. H. (1949). "Fredrick Orpen Bower. 1855-1948".
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 6 (18): 346–374.
doi:
10.1098/rsbm.1949.0002.
JSTOR
768929.
S2CID
162245715.
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^ W. H. Lang, ‘Bower, Frederick Orpen (1855–1948)’, rev. Thomas Junker, "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004.
doi:
10.1093/ref:odnb/31999. (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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^
Presidential Address to the British Association Meeting, held at Bristol in 1930
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a
b
"Frederick Orpen Bower | English botanist".
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^
THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1836-1936 (PDF). p. 15. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 11 March 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
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^ C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006).
Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 2 (K–Z) (PDF).
ISBN
090219884X. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
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^
"Bower, Frederick Orpen, 1855-1948, botanist". Archived from
the original on 15 January 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
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^
International Plant Names Index.
Bower.
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