Frederick Orpen Bower FRS (4 November 1855 – 11 April 1948) was a British botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1909 and the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1938.
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 individual as the author when citing a botanical name.Famous quotes containing the words frederick and/or bower:
“For should your hands drop white and empty
All the toys of the world would break.”
—John Frederick Nims (b. 1913)
“Quoth she, “I have loved thee, Little Musgrave,
Full long and many a day;”
“So have I loved you, faire lady,
Yet never a word durst I say.”
“I have a bower at Bucklesfordbery,
Full daintyly it is deight;
If thou wilt wend thither, thou Little Musgrave,
Thou’s lig in mine armes all night.””
—Unknown. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (l. 17–24)