INDEX 



267 



Descent, law of, 95 



Diary, Sir William Flower's, extract 



from, in the Crimea, 16-24 

 Dillon, Viscount, expresses apprecia 



tion of services of Sir William 



Flower by Trustees of Natura 



History Museum, 225 

 Dingo, Australian dog, 1 10 

 Dohrn, Dr., of Marine Laboratory a 



Naples, 163 

 Doran, Dr. Alban, Assistant in Hun 



terian Museum, 57, 58 

 Drummond, Mrs., of Megginch, 89 

 Duff, Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart E 



Grant, 218 



Dufferin, Marquis of, 218 

 Durham University, Sir William 



Flower receives degree of D. C. L. , 



Edgbaston, school, at, 5 



Edinburgh University, Sir William 

 Flower an LL.D. of, 224 



Edward VII., King, interest in 

 Natural History Museum, 123, 

 231 ; at unveiling of Darwin's 

 statue, 155 ; letter to Sir William 

 Flower, 234 



Egypt, visit to, 82 



Elgin, 7th Earl of, 85 



Emin Pasha, 144, 198 ; letter from, 

 199, 200 



Erichsen, Sir John, 136 



Eschricht, Professor, 176 



Etheridge, Robert, F.G.S., 121 



Ethnological Museum formed at Cam- 

 bridge, 196 



Ethnological Society, 192 



Evans, Arthur, 196 



Evolution, Sir William Flower's con- 

 tribution to the understanding of, 

 64-68 ; address on, at Church 

 Congress, 93-99 ; structure of 

 whales in reference to, 161 



Fagan, Charles E., Secretary of 

 Natural History Museum, 204, 

 233 ; letters to, 219-223 

 Farrar, Canon, 90 



Felixstowe, summer residence at, 80 

 "First aid" in the seventies, 39 

 Fishes, electric organs of, 121 

 Fishmongers' Company assists in estab- 



lishing Marine Laboratory at 

 Plymouth, 164 



Fletcher, L., F.R.S., 127, 140 . 

 Flower, Richard, of Marden Hill, 

 Hertfordshire (Sir William's 

 grandfather), i ; migrates to 

 America, 91, 92 



Flower, Edward Fordham (Sir 

 William's father), his early life 

 and marriage, I ; settles at 

 Stratford-on-Avon, I ; changes to 

 London, i, 2 ; letter to, from 

 Sebastopol, 31 ; urges his son to 

 accept Curatorship of Hunterian 

 Museum, 50 ; opposition to bear- 

 ing reins for horses, 215 

 Flower, Celina (Sir William's mother), 

 2 ; letters to, 6, 7, 8, 12, 24, 

 26, 27, 29, 36, 101, 102, 171 

 Flower, Richard (Sir William's eldest 



brother), 2 



Flower, Charles Edward (Sir William's 

 brother), founder of Shakespeare 

 Memorial, 2, 82 

 Flower, Edgar (Sir William's youngest 

 brother), 2; letter to, from Se- 

 bastopol, 25 

 Flower, Sir William Henry, birth of, 

 i ; parents, I ; brothers, 2 ; early 

 life, 2 ; devotion to natural history, 

 3 ; first museum and collections, 

 3 ; delicate health of, 5 ; school- 

 days, at Edgbaston and Worksop, 

 5, 6 ; enters University College, 

 London, 6 ; walking tours, 9, 

 10 ; reads his first paper, before 

 Zoological Society of London, 

 10 ; appointed House Surgeon to 

 Middlesex Hospital, 10 ; passes 

 examination for membership of 

 Royal College of Surgeons, 10 ; 

 undertakes curatorship of Middle- 

 sex Hospital Museum, 10; joins 

 Army Medical Staff, 12; Assist- 

 ant Surgeon at Templemore, 14 ; 

 joins 63rd Regiment and sails for 

 the Crimea, 15-17 ; extracts from 

 his diary, 17-24; letters from the 

 Crimea, 24-34 ; invalided home 

 from Crimea, 35 ; decorated for 

 services, 3 7 ; returns to civil life, 

 37 ; takes diploma of F.R.C.S., 

 37 ; appointed Assistant-Surgeon 



