6 LIFE OF FLOWER 



some time President of the Royal Society of London. 

 In 1851 the year of the Great Exhibition Flower 

 passed his first M.B. examination at London University, 

 coming out in the first division. In the same year he 

 made a tour in Holland and Germany, while in 1853 ^ e 

 visited France and the north of Spain ; bringing home 

 in both instances numerous sketches in pencil and sepia 

 of the scenery and people of the countries traversed. 



In all the obituary notices of Flower that have come 

 under the present writer's notice, it is stated that he 

 obtained the post of Curator of the museum of the 

 Middlesex Hospital after his return from the Crimea. 

 This is, however, proved to be incorrect by his first 

 zoological paper, " On the Dissection of a Species of 

 Galago," which was contributed to the Zoological 

 Society of London in 1852, and appeared in the 

 Proceedings of that body for the same year, where the 

 author describes himself as the holder of the post in 

 question. As a matter of fact, he was elected Curator 

 in 1854, anc * resigned the post in I854. 1 



Flower never took the degree of M.D., but three 

 years after passing his M.B. he became (on 2yth March 

 1854) a member of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 of England. 



A few weeks after this event a call was made for 

 additional surgeons for the army then serving in the 

 Crimea, and young Flower, partly, perhaps, from 

 patriotic motives, and partly with a view of extending 

 his practical experience in surgery, promptly volunteered 

 his services, which were accepted. After spending a few 



1 The writer is indebted to the Secretary of the Middlesex Hospital for 

 these particulars. 



