LIFE OF FLOWER 9 



appeared in 1861, and has passed through three editions. 

 During this period of his career he also contributed to 

 Holmes' System of Surgery an article on " Injuries to the 

 Upper Extremities," which contained certain original ob- 

 servations- with regard to dislocations of the shoulder- 

 joint ; and he likewise wrote an essay on the same subject 

 to the Pathological Society, as well as several articles 

 on various surgical subjects to the medical journals of the 

 day. But even at this comparatively early period of his 

 career Flower's published scientific work was by no means 

 strictly confined to his ostensible profession, for his two 

 first papers on Comparative Anatomy the one "On 

 the Dissection of a Galago " (Lemur) ; and the other " On 

 the Posterior Lobes of the Cerebrum of the Quadru- 

 mana " appeared during the period in question. During 

 this period, as the writer of his obituary notice in the 

 " Record " of the Royal Society well remarks, there is 

 little doubt that Flower had breathing time, after his 

 Crimean experiences, to collect his energies and gather 

 up a store of valuable information which stood him in good 

 stead in later years, when he had frequently less leisure 

 to devote to pure study. 



It was, moreover, during his official connection with 

 the Middlesex Hospital that Mr. Flower married Georgina 

 Rosetta, the youngest daughter of the late Admiral W. 

 H. Smyth, C.S.I., etc., a well-known astronomer, who 

 was for some time Hydrographer to the Admiralty and 

 likewise Foreign Secretary to the Royal Society, the 

 wedding taking place in 1858 at the church of Stone, in 

 Buckinghamshire, near the bride's home. This happy 

 union had in many ways an important influence upon the 

 future career of the young surgeon, for, in addition to 



