D581 - Bowers, Mr Alan Benton and Dennis, Miss A Mavis - 1937- 1989
Papers of Mr Alan B Bowers and Miss A Mavis Dennis (later Mrs Bowers) mainly relating to their undergraduate careers studying for the Bachelor of Science at the University of Liverpool. For A Mavis Dennis this includes exercise books with notes, diagrams and lectures covering the subjects zoology, b...
| Archive level description: | Sub-sub fonds |
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| Physical Description: | 4 boxes |
| Languages: | English. |
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| Summary: | Papers of Mr Alan B Bowers and Miss A Mavis Dennis (later Mrs Bowers) mainly relating to their undergraduate careers studying for the Bachelor of Science at the University of Liverpool. For A Mavis Dennis this includes exercise books with notes, diagrams and lectures covering the subjects zoology, botany, chemistry, geology, geography and biology and practical notes on zoology and botany.Bowers' papers comprise of notes, diagrams and writing on zoology and botany and some personal/administrative items including material from his time working at Port Erin. There are also a small number of photographs of Alan Bowers and others in the 1940s and 1980s. |
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| Date: | 1937- 1989 |
| Reference Number: | D581 |
| Accruals: | There are no anticipated accruals. |
| Access Conditions: | Access is open to bona fide researchers. |
| Arrangement: | This collection has been arranged into three sections:
Photographs and the Bowers papers have been arranged chronologically where possible. The Dennis papers have been arranged by academic subject and include a section on his time working at Port Erin. |
| Access Restrictions: | Reproduction and licensing rules available on request. |
| Biographical/Administrative Information: | Mr Alan Benton Bowers studied at the University of Liverpool (BSc 1941, DipEd 1947). He became a member of staff in 1948 and was an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology before becoming a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Marine Biology in 1964. He retired in 1986 and died in 1991. Miss A. Mavis Dennis (later Mrs Bowers) studied at the University of Liverpool, beginning in 1944, and was awarded the BSc in 1947 and DipEd in 1948. |