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the foot of man, and showed how it differed from that of the ape and 

 gorilla. 



Flower's accurate investigations in this field gave rise to a valuable 

 contribution "On the Posterior Lobes of the Cerebrum in the Quadru- 

 rnana, " and enabled Huxley to substantiate his position that these 

 structures, instead of being the attributes of man, are precisely the 

 most marked cerebral characters common to man with the apes. 

 Huxley also demonstrated that the differences between the foot of man 

 and that of the higher apes were of the same order, and only slightly 

 different in degree from those which separated one ape from another. 



Early in the sixties Flower's papers on the neck vertebrae of the Sea 

 cows, and on the Lesser Fin-whale stranded on the coast of Norfolk, 

 seem to have aroused within him a latent charm for cetacean structure 

 a charm which held him to his last working moment. Hence the 

 prominence in his subsequent labours of memoirs dealing with the 

 subject, e.g., "The Skeletons of Whales in Holland and Belgium," "A 

 Tasmanian Grampus," " Pseudorca meridionalis" "Sibbald's Rorqual," 

 "The Pevensey Fin-whale," "Identity of Fin-whales Carolina and 

 Sibbaldii," "Four Specimens of the Common Fin-whale," "Osteology 

 of the Cachalot," "On the Fin-whale of Langston Harbour," "On a 

 Sub-Fossil Whale in Cornwall," "Ziphoid Whales," "Skeleton of the 

 Chinese White Dolphin," "On Risso's Dolphin," "On Recent Ziphoid 

 Whales," &c. In 1866 he also advanced his favourite study by trans- 

 lating and editing for the Ray Society the classical memoirs of Pro- 

 fessors Eschricht, Reinhardt, and Lilljeborg on the Whales, and adding 

 many important notes and an illustrated appendix of his own. Other 

 contributions on the cetaceans and their allies included "On the Skull 

 of Xiphodon," "On Dr. Haast's Ziphius and Mesoplodon, " "On a 

 Collection of Seals and Cetaceans from Kerguelen, " " On the Common 

 Dolphins," "On the Cranium of Hyperoodon," "On a Whale of the 

 Genus Hyperoodon, " " On the Characters of the Delphinidse, " " On a 

 Species of Rudolphi's Rorqual taken on the Essex Coast," "On the 

 External Characters of Two Species of British Dolphins." No one in 

 our country, except Sir William Turner, has laboured more persistently 

 and with such conspicuous success at this interesting and important 

 group, and no one had a clearer grasp of its affinities. Foreign 

 museums were in some cases more than once ransacked for information 

 such as those of Leiden, Utrecht, Brussels, Louvain, Paris, Heidelberg, 

 Berlin, Dresden, Nuremberg, Strassburg, besides those of Norway and 

 Italy. 



While thus engaged in his laborious observations amongst the skele- 

 tons and other parts of whales, the museums of Britain and the Con- 

 tinent were in some cases more than once ransacked for information, 

 which he had accumulated in two fascinating lectures, the one "On 

 Whales and Whale Fisheries, " at the Royal Colonial Institute, and the 



