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that he had not sufficient skilled labour at his disposal 

 wherewith to carry out the installation of the Index 

 Museum and his meditated improvements in the 

 exhibition series. Accordingly he obtained the assent 

 of the Treasury to employ the services of a few 

 scientific men not on the staff of the museum 

 for these purposes ; an arrangement which has been 

 continued under his successor. 



Sir William's services to the museum, as well as to 

 science in general, are commemorated by a bust, executed 

 by Mr. T. Brock, and placed on the south side of the 

 entrance to the first " bay " of the Index Museum. 

 The funds necessary for this were raised by the 

 " Flower Memorial Committee," to which Mr. F. E. 

 Beddard, Prosector of the Zoological Society, acted as 

 Secretary. The bust, which in a profile view, is an 

 excellent likeness of the late Director, was unveiled on 

 26th July 1903, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 

 the presence of a representative assemblage of men of 

 science and personal friends, as well as of statesmen. 



The proceedings were opened by Professor E. Ray 

 Lankester, the Director of the Museum, who moved 

 that Lord Avebury (better known in scientific circles as 

 Sir John Lubbock), the Chairman of the Memorial 

 Committee, should take the chair. The Chairman, 

 having taken his seat, expressed his pleasure in being 

 called upon to preside at the ceremony, on account of 

 his admiration and respect for the late Sir William 

 Flower, and for the services he had rendered to 

 zoological science. 



Dr. Philip Lutley Sclater, the Secretary of the 

 Zoological Society, also spoke as an old and intimate 



