OBITUARY NOTICES. 



We have latel}' mourned the loss by death of several 

 prominent members of the Club. It is proposed to 

 publish short memoirs of these deceased members, with portraits. 

 Two of these are here ^iven and others will follow in future 

 parts. — Ed.] 



THE LATE SIR WILLIAM HENRY FLOWER, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S., S-c. 



[With Plate VI.] 



By the death of Sir WiHiam Flower, which occurred at his residence in 

 Stanhope Gardens on the ist July, 1899, we have lost one of our most dis- 

 tinguished Honorary Members ; who has been among us and rendered good 

 service on various occasions, and also contributed to our Journal. 



Kindly by nature, he was always as ready to receive as to impart 

 information concerning his life-study, Zoology ; and to those who knew him 

 we'l, his friendship was a true and real pleasure. 



The ordinary facts of his career have been so fully detailed in obituary 

 notices that we need scarcely dwell upon them here. Of his lineage; he was 

 descended from an old Hertfordshire family, latterly settled in and near the 

 County Town. His grandfather Richard was a Brewer and Banker, and was 

 known also as a breeder of fine sheep : he bought and resided at Marden 

 Hall, a small estate in Tewin parish, near Hertford ; from 1809 to 1817. He 

 appears to have been somewhat eccentric, and in the latter year sold the 

 property ; and with his son, the late Edward Fordham Flower, then aged 12, 

 emigrated to Illinois, U.S. The son, however, returned to England in 1824 ; 

 was married in 1827 to Celina, eldest daughter of John Greaves, of Radford 

 House, near Leamington ; and settled at Stratford-on-Avon, where he founded 

 the well-known Brewer}', and there his three sons were born. In later years 

 he lived mostly in London, and was famous for his crusade against the use of 

 the bearing-rein for horses. 



Sir William, his second son, was born in November, 1831. Having no 

 taste for his father's business as he grew up, he matriculated at University 

 College, London, where he subsequently qualified as a Surgeon ; and took the 

 Gold Medal for Physiology, and the Silver one for Zoology. 



The outbreak of the Crimean War having then caused a demand for Army- 

 Surgeons, induced him to join the 63rd Regiment in the capacity of Assistant ; 

 and he served throughout the whole campaign, suffering those terrible trials 

 in field and trench which had such an unfortunate and lasting effect upon 

 his health to the close. 



On his return, with the Crimean Medal and clasps for all the great 

 battles from Alma to Sevastopol ; he spent some years as Assistant, and 

 Demonstrator in Anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital, and become Curator of 

 its Museum. In 1861 he succeeded Professor Owen as Conservator of the 

 Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons; and in 1870 (on Owen's appoint- 



