1 6 LIFE OF FLOWER 



and occupied that position till 1885. Of his numerous 

 contributions to anthropological science, many appeared 

 in the journal of the Institute. 



In the annual meetings of the British Association for 

 the advancement of science, Flower, from an early date, 

 took a lively interest. At the Norwich meeting, in 1868, 

 he acted as Vice-President of the section of Biology, 

 white he was President of the same section at the 

 Dublin meeting of 1878. At York he presided over 

 the section of Anthropology in 1 88 1 ; he was a Vice- 

 President at the Aberdeen meeting of 1885, while for 

 the second time he occupied the Presidential chair of 

 the Anthropological section in 1894 at Oxford, when 

 his opening address on Anthropological progress dis- 

 played great breadth of thought and generalisation. 

 Finally, he was President of the Association at the 

 meeting held in Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1889, ^ s 

 address at the latter meeting forming the first article in 

 Essays on Museums. 



Among other offices of a kindred nature to the 

 above, it may be mentioned that Sir William was 

 President of the section of Anatomy at the International 

 Medical Congress held in London in August 1 88 1. 

 His address on that occasion (reprinted as article 7 of 

 the volume just cited) being on the Museum of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons. In July 1893 ^ e acte d as 

 President of the Museum's Association at their London 

 meeting, when, after referring to the general scope of 

 that body, and a brief survey of some of the chief 

 museums of Europe, he sketched out a plan for an ideal 

 building of this nature. This address also appears in 

 Essays on Museums. Sir William, the year before 



