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places visited in this way were Wales, the Lakes, 

 the Wye district, the I|.hine, Holland and Belgium, 

 the Black Forest, the lower Rhone, the Pyrenees 

 and Switzerland. Even in those days the Museums 

 and Zoological Gardens they came to in their walks 

 were always the first objects of interest. 



In March 1852 Flower read his first paper 

 ^ ' before the Zoological Society of London (of which 

 he had been elected a Fellow the year before), 

 " Notes on the Dissection of a New Species of 

 Galago." He was also now contributing many 

 papers to the University College and Middlesex 

 Hospital Medical Societies. In March 1853 he 

 was appointed Junior House Surgeon to Middlesex 

 Hospital, and six months later Senior House 

 Surgeon. In March 1854 he passed the examina- 

 tion for Membership of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons. In spite of all his other duties he under- 

 took the work of Curator of the Middlesex Hospital 

 Museum, to which he added many new preparations, 

 and the general condition of which he much im- 

 proved, as the Committee emphasised in their 

 report every year. In January 1854 they wrote: 

 " The Committee have great satisfaction in recording 

 their sense of the excellent order in which the 

 Museum has been kept, and the admirable manner 

 in which the preparations have been put up. This 

 reflects the greatest credit on Mr. W. H. Flower, 

 inasmuch as he has been engaged during the 

 greater part of the year in performing in a very 



