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Bower was born in Ripon in Yorkshire the son of Abraham Bower and Cornelia Morris, sister of the eminent botanist, Francis Orpen Morris.
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Excerpt from Practical Botany: For Beginners A Few words may be said to explain the origin of the work of which the present portion is a first instalment. In 1873 I was invited by the Science and Art Department to conduct a course of instruction in what is now the Normal School of Science at South Kensington. It was a condition of the undertaking that the instruction should be carried on continuously from day to day and throughout the working hours of each day. My friend Mr. Lawson, late Professor of Botany at Oxford, was so good as to give me his assistance. We had the use of Professor Huxley's convenient and well-appointed laboratory, and we determined to attempt a course of instruction which should embrace the leading morphological facts of every important type in the vegetable kingdom. We, in fact, resolved to adopt exactly the same plan of work as Professor Huxley in his own teaching had found convenient for the animal side of morphology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory OF the two branches of the Organic World, the Vegetable Kingdom might be expected to present a simpler problem of Descent than the Animal Kingdom, on account of the prevalent non-motility of the mature individual. That fixity of position which the Higher Plants show, should tend to a more obvious record of previous events than the ambulatory habit of Animals, and especially of their higher types, would seem to allow. It is reasonable to expect that organisms of fixed position should demonstrate in their distribution some traces of their past history; these would be specially valuable in the elucidation of the problem of the Origin of a Land Flora, and of the relation of the Land-growing Plants to those of the water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Frederick Orpen Bower (1855-1948) was a renowned botanist best known for his research on the origins and evolution of ferns. Appointed Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow in 1885, he became a leading figure in the development of modern botany and the emerging field of paleobotany, devising the interpolation theory of the life cycle in land plants. First published between 1923 and 1928 as part of the Cambridge Botanical Handbook series, The Ferns was the first systematic classification of ferns according to anatomical, morphological and developmental features. In this three-volume work Bower analyses the major areas of comparison between different species, describes primitive and fossil ferns and compares these species to present-day fern species, providing a comprehensive description of the order. Volume 3 describes, analyses and classifies extant species of ferns.
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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 Master of Arts in 1877.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. He was president of the British Association in 1929–1930. See
In 1880 he acquired a position as assistant lecturer in Botany at University College, London under Professor Thomas Huxley.
In 1882 he moved to South Kensington as a full Lecturer in Botany.
During this time he spent time at Kew Gardens studying with Dukinfield Henry Scott. In 1885 he was awarded the chair in Botany at Glasgow University and was a Professor there until 1925.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1886)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1891)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Belgium
Fellow of the Academy of Science of Munich
Fellow of the Royal Danish Society
The archives for Frederick Orpen Bower are maintained by the s of the University of Glasgow (GUAS).
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1886)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1891)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Belgium
Fellow of the Academy of Science of Munich
Fellow of the Royal Danish Society
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.