CHAPTER IV 



LIFE IN Lincoln's inn fields — the hunterian 



MUSEUM 



In the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 Flower has left his impress in such clear and sub- 

 stantive form that it almost tells its own story. 

 To the specialist it speaks directly. But as the 

 originator of this luminous order himself said, in 

 his first address when appointed to succeed Huxley 

 as Hunterian Professor, that he must be, and in- 

 tended to act, as the " mouthpiece of his specimens,'" 

 so, while they tell their own story and uses, they 

 cannot tell the story of what Flower did and how he 

 did it. The writer must therefore endeavour to do 

 this, aided by the opportunities afforded of seeing 

 his work by Professor Stewart, his successor, the 

 present Conservator, and by some of those who 

 were assistants in the Museum at the time, more 

 especially Mr. W. Pearson.^ 



1 Mr. J. W. Qark, Registrary of Cambridge University, who was engaged 

 in the arrangement of the New Museum at Cambridge, constantly saw Flower 

 during his Conservatorship, and has kindly given much information of a 

 peculiarly useful kind. 



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