102 LIFE OF FLOWER 



With these preliminary remarks, we may proceed to 

 a general survey of Sir William's zoological work. It 

 has, however, been found convenient to relegate the 

 consideration of his numerous memoirs on the Cetacea to 

 the next chapter, by which means their connection will 

 be made more apparent than if they were discussed 

 among those on other sections of zoology. 



The first zoological paper (and indeed the first 

 scientific work of any description) published by Flower 

 seems to have been that on the dissection of one of the 

 African lemurs belonging to the genus Ga/ago, which 

 appeared in the Zoological Society's Proceedings for 1852, 

 and serves to prove, as mentioned in the first chapter, that 

 the author was at that time holding the post of Curator 

 of the Museum of the Middlesex Hospital. The paper 

 itself is of little importance, dealing only with the 

 structure of the muscles and viscera of the species in 

 question. 



The next paper on the list, which appeared in the 

 same journal for 1 860, was also written during this 

 part of Flower's career ; it is one of the few devoted 

 to the anatomy of birds, and describes the gizzard 

 of the Nicobar pigeon and other graminivorous 

 species. 



About this time Flower began to devote his attention 

 to the mammalian brain ; his first contribution on this 

 subject being " Observations on the Posterior Lobes of 

 the Cerebrum of the Quadrumana, with the Description 

 of the Brain of a Galago? of which an abstract appeared 

 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London for 

 1860, although the complete memoir was not published 

 till 1862, in the Philosophical Transactions. The date of 



