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specimens, and no less delicacy of manipulative 

 skill in their preparation and display than in 

 former years. They can add, however, that 

 they have never before had the gratification of 

 reporting such a large addition of new and in- 

 structive specimens as was exhibited to them by 

 Mr. Flower to-day. They desire, therefore, to 

 record their especial thanks to him for the zeal 

 which has stimulated and the intelligence which 

 has directed his labours during the past year." 

 In another communication the governors added to 

 their thanks to Flower a word of courteous appre- 

 ciation of his wife's interest and help in the Museum. 

 There is no profession in which good work is so 

 quickly recognised as in that of surgery and medicine. 

 Flower's extra work in the Hospital Museum of 

 Comparative Anatomy was also much appreciated, 

 and his interests in zoology were well known to the 

 authorities who controlled the great surgical insti- 

 tutions of London. He read several very original 

 papers before the Zoological Society on animal 

 anatomy, attended Huxley's lectures, visited the 

 "Zoo" very frequently, and in one week we find 

 him lecturing to the men in his father's brewery at 

 Stratford-on-Avon on the " Relation of Men to 

 Animals," and also that his paper on the " Brains 

 of the Quadrumana," read before the Zoological 

 Society, had been reprinted in an improved form 

 by the Royal Society. This paper on the " Brains 

 of Monkeys," which was probably inspired by the 



