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fixed as the basis of future research, and that science, 

 which was the handmaid of truth, could lead to 

 nothing opposed to the best and highest instincts 

 of mankind. Owen and Huxley were both present 

 among the audience. His first course of lectures 

 (on the " Anatomy of the Mammalia ") followed, 

 and continued through February and March. These 

 formed the substance of his Osteology of the Mam- 

 malia, published late in the year, and in a second 

 and third edition in 1876 and (with the collaboration 

 of Hans Gadow) in 1885. It was not every one 

 who could have succeeded in interesting audiences 

 used to Huxley's lectures. But Flower not only 

 did this, but developed the subject-matter of the first 

 course, for the use of future students, into a com- 

 plete guide to the bony structure of the mammals, 

 illustrated by more than a hundred original figures. 

 The arrangement and treatment were so complete 

 that almost any question as to the skeleton of any 

 mammal could be readily answered from it. In the 

 concluding chapter the correspondence between the 

 bones of the hind and fore limbs was considered. 



Dr. Philip Lutley Sclater, F.R.S., kindly writes 

 in regard to this book : 



Among the publications of Sir William Flower, his well-known 

 Introduction to the Osteology of the Mammalia is one of the most 

 useful, and has been widely employed as a text-book. In 1870 

 Flower gave a course of lectures before the Royal College of 

 Surgeons on this subject, and those who were fortunate enough 

 to be able to attend them (of whom the writer of these lines was 

 one) will not easily forget the clear and instructive manner in 



