224 SIR WILLIAM FLOWER CHAP. 



with those years. You know how much I wish I could have 

 done more, both for the Museum and for all belonging to it. 

 But it has not been granted to me, and I must be thankful for 

 the measure of health and strength which is left. 



Though the work entailed at the Museum by 

 his undertaking the keepership of Zoology made 

 great demands on his thought and time, Flower 

 received ample public recognition of his efforts, 

 while his private life was singularly happy. He 

 was elected an honorary member of nearly every 

 learned society abroad connected with Zoology. 

 He was already an honorary LL.D. of Edinburgh 

 and of Cambridge. In 1895 ne received the 

 honorary degree of D.C.L. at Oxford. In Sep- 

 tember 1895, at the International Congress of 

 Zoologists at Leyden, he was elected President for 

 next year's Congress. The University of Utrecht 

 made him Doctor in Botany and Zoology, honoris 

 causa, in the same year. He was elected a Life 

 Trustee of Shakespeare's birthplace by the people 

 of Stratford-on-Avon. In 1897 ne was elected 

 " Associe de 1' Academic Royale des Sciences, des 

 Lettres, et des Beaux- Arts " of Belgium, the only other 

 British Associates being Lord Kelvin, Sir J. Hooker, 

 and Sir Archibald Geikie. In 1898 he received 

 through the German Embassy in London from the 

 German Emperor the Royal Prussian Order of 

 Merit, " fur die Wissenschaften und Kiinste," which 

 the Queen granted him permission to wear. 



But Flower's constitution, though his fine appear- 



