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Authorised form of nameFarmer; Sir; John Bretland (1865 - 1944)
Dates1865 - 1944
NationalityBritish
Place of birthAtherstone, Warwickshire, England
Date of birth05 April 1865
Place of deathExmouth, Devon
Date of death26/01/1944
Research fieldBotany
ActivityEducation:
MA (Oxon)
Honours:
Kt 1926
Memberships:
FLS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election14/06/1900
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1919-1921
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1919
Lectures:
Croonian 1907
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1945-1948 vol 5 pp 17-31, plate, by V H Blackman
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/22920562
CodeNA1831
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1900/04Farmer, Sir John Bretland: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CMB/38/3Minutes, meeting of the Natural Products War Committee17 June 1918
CMB/38Natural Products (War) Committee of the Royal SocietyFebruary 1918 to June 1918
CMB/38/2Minutes, meeting of the Natural Products (War) Committee23 April 1918
NLB/32/711Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society, Claremont House, Wimbledon Common12 May 1906
NLB/40/162Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] B [Bretland] Farmer FRS26 April 1909
NLB/30/539Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society11 April 1905
NLB/6/260Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Bretland Farmer, Magdalen College, Oxford2 April 1892
NLB/8/746Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society15 December 1893
NLB/13/48Copy letter from Michael Foster and Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Botanical Committee1 June 1896
NLB/13/577Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society10 October 1896
NLB/13/709Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Mr Charles Baker, 224 High Holborn, W.C.9 November 1896
RR/15/151Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'A conjugating "yeast''' by B T P BarkerJune 1901
RR/15/300Second referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The relations between certain diatoms & the fission products of a parasitic alga (Chlorochytrium)' by Henry Charlton Bastian19 January 1903
RR/15/330Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The physics and physiology of the protoplasmic streaming of plants' by Alfred James EwartMay 1902
RR/16/211Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The origin of parasitism in fungi' by John Massee4 February 1904
RR/15/299Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The relations between certain diatoms & the fission products of a parasitic alga (Chlorochytrium)' by Henry Charlton Bastian14 November 1902
RR/16/135Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The histology of Uredo dispera, Erikss, and the 'Mycoplasm' Hypothesis' by Harry Marshall WardMarch 1903
RR/16/83Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable- assimilation and respiration III. On the effect of temperature on Carbon Dioxide assimilation' by Gabrielle Louise Caroline MatthaeiOctober 1903
RR/16/262Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Note on the free growth of bacteria & some torulae in a solution of neutral ammonia tartrate in distilled water' by Dr Henry Charlton Bastian20 May 1905
RR/17/40Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'On the anatomy of the Julianiaceae considered from the systematic point of view' by Felix Eugen Fritsch[December 1906]
RR/17/44Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'On a general consideration of the subaerial and freshwater algal flora of Ceylon' by Felix Eugen Fritsch[July 1906]
NLB/17/57Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society, and J L Williams8 July 1898
NLB/22/19Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society12 February 1901
NLB/26/628Copy letter from Theodore E James to, Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society2 May 1903
NLB/26/38Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society19 January 1903
NLB/26/681Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society9 May 1903
NLB/28/19Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Editors of The Lancet19 December 1903
NLB/27/847Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society11 December 1903
NLB/30/379Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society15 March 1905
NLB/59/97Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS16 July 1920
NLB/30/692Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society8 May 1905
NLB/30/719Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society10 May 1905
NLB/31/5Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society7 June 1905
NLB/28/735Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society9 May 1904
NLB/32/53Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society19 December 1905
NLB/32/32Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, [Fellow of the Royal Society]14 December 1905
NLB/29/711Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society29 November 1904
NLB/29/716Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society30 November 1904
NLB/32/399Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee5 March 1906
NLB/35/246Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society3 May 1907
NLB/34/665Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society23 February 1907
NLB/35/439Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society1 June 1907
NLB/34/490Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society29 January 1907
NLB/34/808Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society12 March 1907
NLB/36/592Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society18 November 1907
NLB/34/832Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society15 March 1907
NLB/37/594Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] B [Bretland] Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society10 April 1908
NLB/37/696Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] B [Bretland] Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society2 May 1908
NLB/38/148Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1908
NLB/39/167Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor F [Francis] W [Wall] Oliver, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Botany Sectional Committee4 December 1908
NLB/39/703Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] B [Bretland] Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society25 February 1909
NLB/39/769Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] B Bretland] Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society9 March 1909
NLB/42/324Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons19 May 1910
NLB/40/758Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] B [Bretland] Farmer FRS 6 August 1909
NLB/42/695Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] B [Bretland] Farmer FRS 13 August 1910
NLB/46/179Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society21 June 1912
NLB/44/667Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] B [Bretland] Farmer FRS13 October 1911
MC/19/272Letter from John Bretland Farmer, Board of Education, Royal College of Science, South Kensington, London, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison7 April 1904
NLB/46/367Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society19 July 1912
NLB/48/528Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society21 July 1913
NLB/51/693Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Acting Biological Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Bretland Farmer FRS27 May 1915
NLB/51/114Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Bretland Farmer FRS14 December 1914
NLB/51/353Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Bretland Farmer FRS, Chairman of the Botany Committee22 February 1915
RR/25/10Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on two papers 'On the quantitative differences in the water-conductivity of the wood in trees and shrubs. Part I. -The evergreens' and 'On the quantitative differences in the water-conductivity of the wood in trees and shrubs. Part II. -The deciduous plants' by John Bretland Farmer[February 1918]
NLB/51/611Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Bretland Farmer FRS5 May 1915
NLB/51/674Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Acting Biological Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Bretland Farmer FRS20 May 1915
NLB/53/115Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS, Exmoor Forest Hotel, Simonsbath18 April 1916
NLB/51/781Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Bretland Farmer FRS, Chairman of the Botany Committee29 June 1915
NLB/51/473Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Bretland Farmer FRS, Chairman of the Botany Committee26 March 1915
NLB/51/396Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Bretland Farmer, FRS11 March 1915
NLB/52/74Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Bretland Farmer FRS5 August 1915
NLB/52/51Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Sectional Committee30 July 1915
NLB/52/134Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Bretland Farmer FRS, Chairman of the Botany Committee21 September 1915
NLB/52/181Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Comittee and FRS6 October 1915
NLB/52/344Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS 11 November 1915
NLB/52/444Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS10 December 1915
RR/16/292Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Further experiments & histological investigations on intumescences with observations on nuclear division in pathological tissues' by E DaleJune 1905
NLB/52/558Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS14 January 1916
NLB/53/117Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS, Exmoor Forest Hotel, Simonsbath18 April 1916
RR/18/12Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respiration. IX - On assimilation in submerged water-plants, and its relation to the concentration of carbon dioxide and other factors' by Frederick Frost Blackman and A M SmithDecember 1910
RR/20/36Referee's report by John Graham Kerr, on a paper 'On dimensions of chromosomes considered in relation to phylogeny' by John Bretland Farmer and L Digby16 November 1913
RR/19/91Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'A metrical analysis of chromosome complexes, showing correlation of evolutionary development and chromatin thread-width throughout the animal kingdom' by C F U Meek17 February 1912
NLB/54/128Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS13 February 1917
NLB/54/309Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS29 March 1917
NLB/54/528Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS11 June 1917
NLB/54/594Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS27 June 1917
NLB/55/83Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS27 November 1917
NLB/54/349Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS19 April 1917
NLB/53/64Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS 31 March 1916
RR/26/88Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Dictyokinesis in germ cells, or the distribution of the Golgi apparatus during cell division' by Reginald James Ludford and J Brontë Gatenby3 May 1921
RR/55/97Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Rainfall and cotton yields in the Sudan Gezira' by Edward Mortimer Crowther and Frank CrowtherJune 1935
NLB/57/570Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JB [Sir John Bretland] Farmer, FRS3 December 1919
NLB/53/357Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS20 July 1916
RR/30/80Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The effect of grass on trees' by Albert Howard21 July 1924
MC/19/273Letter from [John Bretland] Farmer, Claremont House, Wimbledon, to the Royal Society28 November 1904
RR/17/360Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The colours and pigments of flowers with special reference to genetics' by Muriel Wheldale14 November 1908
NLB/58/123Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS17 March 1920
NLB/58/20Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS2 March 1910
RR/32/75Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'A critical statistical study of experimental data on the effect of minute electric currents on the growth rate of the coleoptile of barley' by F G Gregory and L BattenJuly 1925
NLB/66/881Copy letter from [William Bate Hardy, Secretary of] the Royal Society; to Prof. [Ernest William] MacBride, FRS4 August 1924
RR/17/302Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The electrical forces of mitosis and the origin of cancer' by Jessup, Baly, Goodbody and PrideauxJuly 1908
RR/36/40Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Linkage groups and chromosome number in Lathyrus' by Reginald Crundall Punnett[October 1927]
NLB/51New Letter Book volume 51, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration18 November 1914-9 July 1915
NLB/58/702Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS8 June 1920
NLB/55/277Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS11 February 1918
NLB/68/806Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS4 November 1925
NLB/55/264Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS07 February 1918
NLB/59/60Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS13 July 1920
NLB/59/47Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS12 July 1920
NLB/58/931Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS6 July 1920
NLB/59/63Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS13 July 1920
NLB/55/721Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent 07 August 1918
RR/20/96Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The ratio between spindle lengths in the spermatocyte metaphases of Helix pomatia' by C F U MeekAugust 1913
RR/15/28Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Investigation on the abnormal outgrowths or intumescences on hibuscus vitifolious, Linn: A study in experimental plant pathology' by Elizabeth Dale14 February 1901
RR/14/44Referee's report by Harry Marshall Ward, on a paper 'Contributions to our knowledge of the Fucaceae: their life-history and cytology' by John Bretland Farmer and John Lloyd Williams21 June 1898
NLB/59/766Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS10 November 1920
RR/55/102Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The external mechanics of the chromosomes. Parts I -V' by Cyril Dean DarlingtonOctober 1935
RR/18/96Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'On the effect of gravity upon the movements and aggregation of Euglena viridis' by Harold William Taylor WagerOctober 1910
NLB/61/451Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS8 July 1921
RR/17/386Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Reproduction and early development of laminaria digitata and L. saccharina' by G H Drew 26 April 1909
NLB/64/680Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society;to W. Dawson Esq. of the School of Forestry, Cambridge31 May 1923
RR/48/17Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Meiosis in Oenothera missouriensis' by S Hedayetullah[February 1933]
NLB/55/723Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Professor John Bretland] Farmer, FRS07 August 1918
NLB/66/569Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to E. A. Ebblewhite Esq., F.S.A., Clerk to the Gardeners' Company, 5 Essex Court, E.C30 May 1924
NLB/66/789Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS8 July 1924
RR/55/135Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The cytology of trisomic mutations in a wild species of Oenothera' by Reginald Ruggles Gates and H K NandiMarch 1935
NLB/65/305Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS9 October 1923
NLB/57/605Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Clerk, Trustees of the London Parochial Charities15 December 1919
NLB/61/580Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS; Lion Hotel, Llanymynech, Montgomeryshire9 August 1921
NLB/55/643Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Professor John Bretland] Farmer, FRS06 July 1918
NLB/55/272Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS09 February 1918
NLB/67/685Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS14 February 1925
NLB/57/453Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JB [Sir John Bretland] Farmer, FRS6 November 1919
NLB/57/740Copy letter from the Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JB [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS30 January 1920
NLB/57/431Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Keeper HM [His Majesty's] Privy Purse [Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby, GCB, GCVO, PC]6 November 1919
NLB/57/895Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Herbert McLeod, FRS28 February 1920
NLB/69/196Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John [Bretland] Farmer, FRS26 January 1926
NLB/67/83Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Charles Edward] Walker17 October 1924
NLB/65/420Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Arthur Smith] Woodward, FRS; also sent to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy; [Charles Thomson Rees] Wilson Esq.; [Joseph] Barcroft Esq; Dr [Frederick Frost] Blackman; Sir Frank [Watson] Dyson; [William] Bateson, Esq.; Professor [John Bretland] Farmer; Professor [Frederick Gowland] Hopkins30 October 1923
NLB/65/931Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS31 January 1924
NLB/66/169Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of] the Royal Society; to Professor [William Ernest] Dalby, FRS6 March 1924
NLB/57/897Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor WW [William Whitehead] Watts, FRS28 February 1920
NLB/69/178Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS21 January 1926
NLB/69/218Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Thomas Renton] Elliott, FRS4 February 1926
NLB/71/785Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Comptroller-General, Department of Overseas Trade, 35 Old Queen Street, SW12 November 1928
NLB/66/536Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS26 May 1924
NLB/68/713Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS20 October 1925
NLB/69/826Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John [Bretland] Farmer, FRS28 October 1926
NLB/69/66Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS23 December 1925
NLB/69/63Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney Harmer, K.B.E., FRS23 December 1925
NLB/73/286Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Clerk, City Parochial Foundation, 3 Temple Gardens EC4 2 May 1931
CD/30/3Copy letter from Sir Archibald Geikie, Secretary of the Royal Society, to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer1 May 1906
CD/30/17Copy letter from Sir Archibald Geikie, Secretary of the Royal Society, to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer12 May 1906
CD/30/25Copy letter from Sir Archibald Geikie, Secretary of the Royal Society, to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer22 May 1906
IM/Maull/001367Farmer, Sir John Bretlandnd
MC/19/270Letter from Letter from John Bretland Farmer, Board of Education, South Kensington, London, to the Secretary of the Royal Society19 January 1904
IM/001368Farmer, Sir John Bretlandnd
NLB/9/295Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Royal College of Science, S.W.26 April 1894
RR/16/132Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The oocyte of Tomopteris' by Mr WallaceJuly 1903
NLB/26/647Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society, Claremont House, Wimbledon Common5 May 1903
NLB/35/425Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alfred Daniel Hall, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden31 May 1907
NLB/35/783Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Albert Charles Seward, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1907
NLB/38/75Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, [Fellow of the Royal Society]12 June 1908
NLB/51/232Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Bretland Farmer FRS21 January 1915
NLB/52/576Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS18 January 1916
RR/18/11Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respiration. VIII - A new method for estimating the gaseous exchanges of submerged plants' by Frederick Frost Blackman and A M SmithDecember 1910
RR/31/15Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The distribution of the cytoplasmic organs in transplantable tumour cells, with special reference to dictyokinesis' by Reginald James Ludford4 July 1924
RR/59/91Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Genetical and taxonomic investigations in the Genus Oenothera' by Reginald Ruggles Gates[March 1936]
RR/63/117Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The external mechanics of the chromosomes VI—The behaviour of the centromere at meiosis' by Margaret UpcottJuly 1937
NLB/57/433Copy letter from Sir Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Deputy Master of the Mint [November 1919]
NLB/65/231Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [William] Bateson, Esq., FRS; also sent to Professor [Alfred] Fowler, Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, Dr [Frederick Frost] Blackman, Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Professor [Frederick Gowland] Hopkins, Dr [Arthur] Smith Woodward, Dr [Frank Watson] Dyson, [Charles Thomson Rees] Wilson Esq., [Joseph] Barcroft Esq.24 September 1923
NLB/68/283Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Lawes Agricultural Trust; Rothamstead Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts.12 June 1925
NLB/66/855Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS29 July 1924
NLB/68/445Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Comptroller General; Department of Overseas Trade, 35 Old Queen Street, S.W.1.13 July 1925
NLB/71/565Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, K.B.E, FRS [also send to Sir Henry Lyons, Sir Charles Sherrington and Sir John Farmer].6 July 1928
CMB/38/1Minutes of the Natural Products (War) Committee19 February 1918
NLB/32/509Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee22 March 1906
NLB/52/551Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor John Bertland Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS11 January 1916
NLB/54New Letter Book volume 54, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration10 January 1917-2 November 1917
NLB/58New Letter Book volume 58, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration28 February 1920-9 July 1920
NLB/59New Letter Book volume 59, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1920-2 December 1920
NLB/61New Letter Book volume 61, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration26 April 1921-11 November 1921
RR/59/41Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on five papers 'The external mechanics of the chromosomes I—The scope of enquiry', 'The external mechanics of the chromosomes II-Meiosis in diploids', 'The external mechanics of the chromosomes III-Meiosis in triploids', 'The external mechanics of the chromosomes IV—Abnormal mitosis and meiosis' and 'The External mechanics of the chromosomes V—The balance theory of mitosis' by Cyril Dean Darlington[July 1936]
NLB/52New Letter Book volume 52, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1915-8 March 1916
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/16/103Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Cultural experiments with 'Biologic Forms' of the Erysiphaceae' by Ernest S SalmonFebruary 1904
RR/62/65Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The mechanics of mitosis in the pollen-tube of Tulipa' by Margaret Upcott[July 1936]
MC/19/271Letter from John Bretland Farmer, Board of Education, South Kensington, London, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society17 May 1904
MC/19/274Letter from [John Bretland] Farmer, Claremont House, Wimbledon Common, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison1 December 1904
RR/14/45Referee's report by George Robert Milne Murray, on a paper 'Contributions to our knowledge of the Fucaceae: their life-history and cytology' by John Bretland Farmer and John Lloyd Williams27 June 1898
RR/16/308Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The infection, histology and development of the uredo stage in certain uredineae' by J B P EvansOctober 1905
PP/13/12Paper, 'On Isoëtes lacustris, Linn' by John Bretland Farmer1889
PP/19/15Paper, 'On the embryology of Angiopteris evecta [giant fern], Hoffm' by John Bretland Farmer1892
RR/15/54Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The histology of the cell wall with special reference to the mode of connection of cells' by Arthur William Hill and Walter GardinerAugust 1900
RR/16/285Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The growth of the oocyte in antedon: A morphological study in the cell-metabolism' by Gilbert C ChubbFebruary 1906
RR/16/190Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The dual force of the dividing cell. Part I. The Achromatic Spindle Figure, elucidated by magnetic chains of force' by Marcus Hartog16 December 1904
RR/21/162Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on the Croonian Lecture 'The bearing of cytological research on heredity' by Edmund Beecher Wilson15 Spetmeber 1914
RR/31/53Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'Observations on the formation of bi-nuclear cells' by [Thomas Strangeways Pigg] Strangeways[January 1924]
RR/39/52Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The life-history, cytology and method of infection of Plasmodiophora brassicæ Woron., the cause of finger-and-toe disease of cabbages and other crucifers' by W R Ivimey Cook and E J Schwartz[July 1929]
PP/22/29Paper, 'On the relations of the nucleus to spore-formation in certain liverworts' by John Bretland Farmer1893
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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