34 LIFE OF FLOWER 



the satisfaction of the Council of the College ; and when, 

 in 1869, Professor Huxley found himself compelled by 

 the pressure of other duties to relinquish the Hunterian 

 chair, Flower was elected in 1870 to fill the vacancy. 

 He thus, for the first time in his career, became entitled 

 to the designation of u Professor," and he continued to 

 hold the two offices till his transference to the British 

 Museum. Here it may perhaps be well to mention, in 

 order to avoid confusion, that in the early part of 

 Flower's official career at the College of Surgeons the 

 post of Articulator to the museum was held by a name- 

 sake Mr. James Flower. 



For the first eight years of his connection with the 

 museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields the time and attention 

 of Flower were almost entirely devoted to the improve- 

 ment, augmentation, and rearrangement of the collections 

 under his charge ; and even when his duties as Hunterian 

 Professor claimed a large share of his time, no efforts 

 were spared to maintain the former rate of progress in 

 the museum. 



To record in detail the improvements and alterations 

 made in the museum under Flower's able administration 

 would obviously not only occupy a large amount of 

 space but would, likewise, be wearisome to the reader. 

 Attention will therefore be concentrated on a few 

 salient features in connection with his work. 



Although the anatomy of man naturally took a pro- 

 minent place in what used to be called the " physio- 

 logical" series, yet the preparations illustrating this 

 subject were in the main restricted to the viscera ; the 

 details of regional anatomy and of the arrangement and 

 distribution of muscles, vessels, and nerves not finding 



