INDEX 



267 



Descent, law of, 95 



Diary, Sir William Flower's, extracts 

 from, in the Crimea, 16-24 



Dillon, Viscount, expresses apprecia- 

 tion of services of Sir William 

 Flower by Trustees of Natural 

 History Museum, 225 



Dingo, Australian dog, no 



Dohrn, Dr., of Marine Laboratory at 

 Naples, 163 



Doran, Dr. Alban, Assistant in Hun- 

 terian Museum, 57, 58 



Drummond, Mrs., of Megginch, 89 



Duff, Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart E. 

 Grant, 218 



Dufferin, Marquis of, 218 



Durham University, Sir William 

 Flower receives degree of D. C. L. , 

 211 



Edgbaston, school, at, 5 



Edinburgh University, Sir William 

 Flower an LL.D. of, 224 



Edward VII., King, interest in 

 Natural History Museum, 123, 

 231 ; at unveiling of Darwin's 

 statue, 155 ; letter to Sir William 

 Flower, 234 



Egypt, visit to, 82 



Elgin, 7th Earl of, 85 



Emin Pasha, 144, 198 ; letter from, 

 199, 200 



Erichsen, Sir John, 136 



Eschricht, Professor, 176 



Etheridge, Robert, F.G.S., 121 



Ethnological Museum formed at Cam- 

 bridge, 196 



Ethnological Society, 192 



Evans, Arthur, 196 



Evolution, Sir William Flower's con- 

 tribution to the understanding of, 

 64-68 ; address on, at Church 

 Congress, 93-99 ; structure of 

 whales in reference to, 161 



Fagan, Charles E., Secretary of 

 Natural History Museum, 204, 

 233 ; letters to, 219-223 

 Farrar, Canon, 90 



Felixstowe, summer residence at, 80 

 "First aid" in the seventies, 39 

 Fishes, electric organs of, 121 

 Fishmongers' Company assists in estab- 



lishing Marine Laboratory at 

 Plymouth, 164 

 Fletcher, L., F.R.S., 127, 140 n. 

 Flower, Richard, of Marden Hill, 

 Hertfordshire (Sir William's 

 grandfather), i ; migrates to 

 America, 91, 92 

 Flower, Edward Fordham (Sir 

 William's father), his early life 

 and marriage, i ; settles at 

 Stratford-on-Avon, i ; changes to 

 London, i, 2 ; letter to, from 

 Sebastopol, 31 ; urges his son to 

 accept Curatorship of Hunterian 

 Museum, 50 ; opposition to bear- 

 ing reins for horses, 215 

 Flower, Celina (Sir William's mother), 

 2 ; letters to, 6, 7, 8, 12, 24, 

 26, 27, 29, 36, loi, 102, 171 

 Flower, Richard (Sir William's eldest 



brother), 2 

 Flower, Charles Edward (Sir William's 

 brother), founder of Shakespeare 

 Memorial, 2, 82 

 Flower, Edgar (Sir William's youngest 

 brother), 2; letter to, from Se- 

 bastopol, 25 

 Flower, Sir William Henry, birth of, 

 I ; parents, i ; brothers, 2 ; early 

 life, 2 ; devotion to natural history, 

 3 ; first museum and collections, 

 3 ; delicate health of, 5 ; school- 

 days, at Edgbaston and Worksop, 

 5,6; enters University College, 

 London, 6; walking tours, 9, 

 10 ; reads his first paper, before 

 Zoological Society of London, 

 10; appointed House Surgeon to 

 Middlesex Hospital, 10 ; passes 

 examination for membership of 

 Royal College of Surgeons, 10 ; 

 undertakes curatorship of Middle- 

 sex Hospital Museum, 10; joins 

 Army Medical Staff, 1 2 ; Assist- 

 ant Surgeon at Templemore, 14 ; 

 joins 63rd Regiment and sails for 

 the Crimea, 15-17 ; extracts from 

 his diary, 17-24; letters from the 

 Crimea, 24-34 ; invalided home 

 from Crimea, 35 ; decorated for 

 services, 3 7 ; returns to civil life, 

 37 ; takes diploma of F.R.C.S., 

 37 ; appointed Assistant-Surgeon 



