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]

  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

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