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SIR WILLIAM FLOWER 



Victoria, Queen, presents war medal 

 to Sir William Fowler, 37 ; lends 

 cottage in Richmond Park to Sir 

 Richard Owen, 123 ; Jubilee 

 celebrated by Zoological Society, 

 161 ; presents insignia of K.C.B. 

 to Sir William Flower, 216 ; Sir 

 William's visit to, at Balmoral, 

 217 



Virchow, Professor, 79, 157; describes 

 Sir William Flower as the " Prince 

 of Directors," 187 



Walden, Lord Howard de, 124 . 



Wallace, Alfred Russel, 64, 124, 134 



Wallace, Sir Donald M., 218 



Walsingham, Lord, 123, 220; pre- 

 sents collections to Natural His- 

 tory Museum, 142, 144 



Ward, Rowland, his lifelike taxidermy, 

 187 



Waring, Captain, his whale charts, 1 76 



Warington, Annarella, wife of 

 Admiral W. H. Smyth, 41 ; inci- 

 dent at dinner to Lord Nelson, 

 41, 42 ; her accomplishments, 42 



Warington, Thomas, English Consul 

 at Naples, 41 



Wartz, his Anthropologie der Natur- 

 volken, 192 



Waterhouse's Life Histories of Insect s t 

 220 



Wellington College, lecture to boys at, 



159 



Wellington, Duke of, reminiscences by 



Duke of Argyll, 207 

 Westminster Abbey, services in, 86 ; 



Innocents' Day in, 87 ; service on 



evening of Dean Stanley's death, 



89 



Westminster, Dean of, 243 

 Whalebone, origin of, 115 

 Whale fisheries British and Colonial, 



172, 174; Basque, 173; Cruise 

 of the "Cachalot," 174, 241; 

 right, 174, 176; sperm, 175 



Whale Room in Natural History 

 Museum, 230, 232 



Whales, studies of, 1 66 et seq. ; sperm, 

 167, 171, 175; Greenland, 168, 

 176; narwhal, 168; Chinese 

 dolphin, 1 68 ; Berardius, 168 ; 

 essays and lectures on, 168 et 

 seq. ; " whaling excursions," 169; 

 white whale, 171 ; bottlenose, 

 175 ; right, 175 et seq. ; habits 

 of, 177 ; jaw-bones used as gate- 

 posts, etc., 178, 179 



Wharncliffe, Lord and Lady, visit to, 

 at Wortley, 160 



White-Cooper, Dr., 240 



Wickham, Dr., Headmaster of Wel- 

 lington College, 159 



Wilson, William, his herbarium, 134 



Windsor Castle, Sir William and 

 Lady Flower conducted through 

 by Princess Louise, 218 



Wolf, Joseph, painter, 71 



Wolseley, Viscount, 212, 218 



Woodward, Dr. A. S., F.R.S., 148 



Worksop, school at, 5, 6 



Writings, List of, by Sir William 

 Flower. See Appendix III. 



York, meeting of British Association 

 at (1881), 192 



Zoological Gardens, visits to, 78, 79 

 Zoological Society of London, Sir 

 William Flower elected Fellow 

 of, 10 ; elected President of, 106 ; 

 Jubilee garden party in Society's 

 Gardens, 161 ; summary of its 

 history (1887), 162; memorial 

 tablet to Sir William Flower in 

 Society's meeting-room, 264 



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