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### Author
Bower, Frederick Orpen (1855-1948), British palaeontologist.
**Abbreviated name**: *Bower* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bower*\]
#### Collections
GL; dupl. MICH; NY.
*Ref*.: IH 2: 90.
- Kent, Brit. herbaria 44. 1947 (ref. to Nature 161: 753).
- Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 63. 1970.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 233; BFM 2263a; BM 1: 218, 6: 118; Bossert p. 48; CSP 13: 750; IF p. 683; Kew 1: 329; MW p. 51; Moebius p. 127.
- Reynolds Green, Hist. Bot. 510. 1909.
- Scott, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1908-09: 32-34. 1909 (Linn. medal.)
- Anon., Gard. Chron. 48: 374. 1910 (portr.)
- Barnhart, J. New York Bot. Gard. 12: 120. 1911.
- Huxley, Life letters Hooker 2: 524 \[index\]. 1918.
- Williams, Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 68a: 217-220. 1926.
- Bower, Sixty years of Botany in Britain, London 1938, xi, 112 p.
- Bergdolt, Karl von Goebel ed. 2. 259. 1940.
- Lang, Obituary Notices Fellows Roy. Soc. 6: 347-374. 1949 (portr., bibl.)
- Fletcher, Roy. Bot. Garden Edinburgh 298 \[index\]. 1970.
- Godwin, DSB 2: 370-372. 1970 (bibl.)
- Lenley et al., Cat. Manuscr. Coll. New York Bot. Gard. 46. 1973 (corr.)
#### Eponymy
*Boweria* R. Kidston (1911).
### Publications
##### n.692. The origin of a land flora
**Title**
*The origin of a land flora* a theory based upon the facts of alternation. London (MacMillan and Co.) 1908. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Origin land fl.*
**Notes**
*Orig. ed*.: 1908 (not in Nat. Nov.), p. \[i\]-xi, \[xii\], \[1\]-727, *1 pl*., figs. 1-361. *Copy*: U.
*Facsimile ed*.: New York (Hafner) 1967.
*Ref*.: BM 6: 118.
- Godwin, DSB 2: 371. 1970.
##### n.693. The ferns
**Title**
*The ferns* (Filicales) treated comparatively with a view to their natural classification. Cambridge (University Press) 1923-1928, 3 vols. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Ferns*.
**Notes**
*Vol. 1*: 1923 (p. vi: Dec 1922), p. \[i\]-vi, \[vii-x\], \[1\]-359, *figs. 1-309. Copy*: BR.
*Vol. 2*: 1926, p. \[i-vii\], \[1\]-344, *figs. 310-580. Copy*: BR.
*Vol. 3*: 1928 (note: Jun 1928), p. \[i\]-vi, \[2, cont., note Jun 1928\], \[1\]-306, *figs. 584-755.*
*Copy*: BR.
*Facsimile* reprint: Weinheim (J. Cramer) 1963.
*Ref*.: BFM 2263a; Kew 1: 329; MW p. 51.
##### n.694. Primitive land plants
**Title**
*Primitive land plants* also known as the Archegoniatae... with 465 illustrations. London (MacMillan and Co.) 1935. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Prim. land pl.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1935, p. \[i\]-xiv, \[1\]-658, *figs. nos. 1-449. Copy*: U.