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her father, several of the relatives of Mrs. (now Lady) 

 Flower were more or less intimately connected with 

 scientific work and scientific people ; among them being 

 Sir Warrington Smyth (sometime Inspector-General of 

 Mines), Professor Piazzi Smyth, General Sir Henry 

 Smyth, and Sir George Baden Powell. It was to Lady 

 Flower that Sir William dedicated his last work, the 

 volume entitled Essays on Museums. A tour through 

 Belgium and up the Rhine followed the marriage. 



Although it scarcely comes within the purview of this 

 biography to allude to the issue of this marriage, it may 

 be mentioned that of the three sons born to Sir William 

 Flower, the second alone, Stanley Smyth, inherited his 

 father's zoological tastes. Captain S. S. Flower (who 

 takes his first name from Dean Stanley, of Westminster, 

 an intimate friend of the family, after serving for some 

 time in the 5th Fusileers, obtained the appointment of 

 Director of the Royal Museum at Bangkok, Siam, 

 after which he was made Director of the Khedival 

 Zoological Gardens at Giza, near Cairo, to which post 

 (which he still holds) was subsequently added that of 

 Superintendent of Game Protection in the Sudan. Cap- 

 tain Flower has not only raised the menagerie at Giza 

 to a high state of perfection, but has contributed several 

 papers to the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London on the zoology of Siam and the Malay countries. 



To revert to the proper subject of this memoir, during 

 his tenure of the aforesaid official posts at the Middle- 

 sex Hospital it was apparent to his intimate scientific 

 friends among whom were included the late Professor 

 T. H. Huxley and the late Mr. George Busk that the 

 inclinations of Flower were all on the side of com- 



