Frederick Orpen Bower

Frederick Orpen Bower
Born4 November 1855
Died11 April 1948 (1948-04-12) (aged 92)
NationalityBritish
AwardsLinnean Medal (1909)
Royal Medal (1910)
Darwin Medal
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fieldsbotany
Author abbrev. (botany)Bower
Frederick Orpen Bower in 1924

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).

The standard author abbreviation Bower is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.)
  3. ^ Presidential Address to the British Association Meeting, held at Bristol in 1930
  4. ^ a b "Frederick Orpen Bower | English botanist".
  5. ^ THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1836-1936 (PDF). p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  6. ^ 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. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  7. ^ "Bower, Frederick Orpen, 1855-1948, botanist". Archived from the original on 15 January 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  8. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Bower.
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