192 SIR WILLIAM FLOWER 



In doing this he was clearly abreast of even 

 specialist thought on this subject. The date of the 

 standard works on Anthropology fall almost without 

 exception within the period of Flower's active life. 

 Dr. Tylor's Researches into the Early History of 

 Mankind was published in 1865, his Primitive 

 Culture and Anthropology in 1871 and 1881. The 

 volumes of Wartz's Anthropologie der Naturvolken 

 appeared between 1859 and 1865. The Zeitschrift 

 filr Ethnologie was produced in 1868, and the Revue 

 de l Anthropologie in 1869. 



The Anthropological Society was founded in 

 1863, but it was not until 1871 that it amalgamated 

 with an older body, the Ethnological Society, 

 under the rather cumbrous title of the Anthropo- 

 logical Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 

 Flower complained twenty-three years later of the 

 ** singular want of interest taken by the outside 

 world in its proceedings," and at the British Associa- 

 tion Meeting at York in 188 1, and at Oxford in 

 August 1894, he defined the scope and aims of the 

 science, and urged its study. At the York meeting, 

 after deploring the death of Professor Rolleston, 

 who had been keenly interested in the subject, he 

 proceeded as President of the Department, which 

 had first been instituted under the Presidency of 

 Dr. Tylor at the meeting at Montreal in 1 871, to 

 draw the attention of his audience to Dr. Tylor's 

 Anthropology, the first work published in England 

 under that title, and then proceeded to lay before 



