8 LIFE OF FLOWER 



camp in general at the end of the tempest. A pano- 

 ramic view of Constantinople and a sketch of the 

 military hospital at Scutari were also among his artistic 

 productions at this period. In recognition of his services, 

 Flower, after being invalided home, received from the 

 hands of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, the Crimean 

 medal, with clasps for the Alma, Inkerman, Balaclava, 

 and Sebastopol ; while he was also permitted to accept 

 from H.M., the Sultan, the Turkish war-medal. 



Apparently Flower had never entertained the idea of 

 taking up the profession of an army surgeon as a per- 

 manency, and after his return to London he definitely 

 resigned military service, with the intention of settling 

 down to private medical practice in the Metropolis. In 

 the spring of 1857 he passed the examination qualifying 

 for the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons ; 

 and about this time, or perhaps immediately on his return 

 to London, he joined the staffof the Middlesex Hospital 

 as Demonstrator in Anatomy. During the next year 

 (1858) he was elected to the post of Assistant-Surgeon 

 to the same Institution, where he resumed the Curator- 

 ship of the museum and was also appointed Lecturer on 

 Comparative Anatomy. Although a large portion of his 

 time while at the hospital was devoted to surgical and 

 other duties connected with the medical profession, his 

 Lectureship and Curatorship required that he should 

 devote a considerable amount of attention to the more 

 congenial study of Comparative Anatomy. 



It was during his connection with the Middlesex 

 Hospital that his first scientific work was published, this 

 being the well-known and useful little volume entitled 

 Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body, which 



