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first class in classics. On obtaining a Fellowship he turned to 

 medicine, taking the degree of M.D. in 1857. In that year he wa 

 elected Physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and Lee's Reader 

 in Anatomy, obtaining in 1860 the Professorship of Anatomy and 

 Physiology. He made a special study of the brain, about which 

 he took Huxley's side in the controversy with Owen, and examined 

 barrows, publishing a book on that subject in 1877. Active hi local 

 questions, especially sanitation, his strenuous life told upon his 

 health, and after spending a winter on the Riviera, he died at Oxford 

 on June i6th, 1881, having earned the reputation of a man " deeply 

 learned hi his special branch of study and well informed on all 

 subjects." 



1866. Dr. Thomas Thomson was appointed Treasurer 

 at the Anniversary Meeting on April 30th, but there was 

 no vacancy in the Club. 



On Nov. 2Qth, the vacancies made by the resignation 

 of Professor Faraday and the return of Colonel Strachey 

 to India were filled by the election of Professor Flower 

 and Mr. Simon. 



SIR WILLIAM HENRY FLOWER was born at Stratford-on-Avon, 

 and studied at University College, London, taking the degree of 

 M.B. in that University in 1851. He accompanied the British army 

 to the Crimea, but on his return became Demonstrator of Anatomy 

 at the Middlesex Hospital till 1861, when he was made Curator of 

 the Museum of the College of Surgeons, which he augmented by 

 many new specimens and illustrated by his memoirs. He became 

 Hunterian Professor in 1870, was elected a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society in 1864, and received a Royal Medal in 1882. Two years 

 afterwards he succeeded Sir R. Owen as Director of the Natural 

 History Museum at South Kensington, which also developed and 

 prospered under his rule. He was an Hon. LL.D. of Dublin and 

 Edinburgh and a D.C.L. of Durham, President of the British Associa- 

 tion in 1889, and received a Prussian order. He was created C.B. 

 in 1887 and K.C.B. in 1892. In 1898 failing health compelled him 

 to retire, and he died on July ist, 1899. He made the Museum 

 serviceable to students, yet interesting to the general public, working 

 especially on whales, marsupials, and monotremes, and making 

 valuable contributions to anthropology. His numerous scientific 

 writings are distinguished by caution and reticence in generalization. 



SIR JOHN SIMON was of French ancestry, born in London, Oct. 

 loth, 1816, studied medicine at its hospitals and was appointed 

 Professor of Surgery at King's College, where he was noted as a leader 

 and teacher in pathology, and was appointed medical officer for the 

 City of London. A man of wide culture, he fought the battle of 



