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SIR WILLIAM FLOWER 



Flower, Sir William, contd. — 



and Lecturer on Comparative 

 Anatomy in Middlesex Hospital, 

 37 ; meets his future wife, 40 ; 

 his marriage, 43 ; children, 45, 

 47, 74 ; completion and pub- 

 lication of Diagrams of the 

 Nerves of the Human Body, 45 ; 

 retires from professional life as a 

 surgeon, 47 ; appreciation by 

 Governors of Middlesex Hospital, 

 47, 48 ; appointed Conservator of 

 Hunterian Museum, 5 1 ; at meet- 

 ing of British Association (1862), 

 66 ; home life at Lincoln's Inn 

 P^ields, 74 et seq. ; recreations, 

 'J^ ; holidays at home and abroad, 

 80, 81 ; ill-health, 82 ; visit to 

 Egypt, 82 ; friendship with Dean 

 Stanley, 84-91 ; present at death 

 of Dean Stanley, 90 ; religious dis- 

 position, 9 1 ; address on evolution 

 at Church Congress (1883), 93- 

 99 ; elected a Fellow of Royal 

 Society, 10 1 ; appointed Hun- 

 terian Professor, 10 1; inaugural 

 lecture, 103; subjects of lectures, 

 105, 106 ; elected President of 

 Royal Zoological Society, 106 ; 

 correspondence with Duke of 

 Argyll, 107-122; appointed 

 Director of Natural History 

 Museum, 125; 7V;//<f 5 on appoint- 

 ment, 1 28 ; his memoir of Sir 

 Richard Owen, 133 ; removes to 

 Stanhope Gardens, 136; resigns 

 Curatorship of the Hunterian 

 Museum, 136; opens the Booth 

 Museum at Brighton, 146 ; Keeper 

 of Zoology, 147, 184; at unveil- 

 ing of Darwin's statue, 155 ; 

 elected Trustee of the Hunterian 

 Museum, 158; distributes school 

 prizes in Birmingham Town Hall, 

 159 ; lectures at Bethnal Green 

 and Wellington College, 1 59 ; 

 lectures at Royal and London 

 Institutions, etc., 158-161 ; holi- 

 day in Switzerland, 160 ; honour 

 ofC.B. conferred, 163; honours 

 and degrees, 163, 224, 231 ; 

 opens Marine Biological Labora- 

 tory at Plymouth, 163-165; 



Flower, Sir William, contd. — 



President of British Association 

 (1889), 180; visits Tennyson 

 at Aldworth, 204-209; later days 

 at Natural History Museum, 210; 

 made D.C.L. of Durham Uni- 

 versity, 211 ; visits to Duke of 

 Northumberland and Earl of 

 Tankerville, 211, 212, 228; 

 lectures at Royal Institution, 212 ; 

 at Civil vService dinner, 212 ; 

 created K.C.B., 215 ; invited to 

 Balmoral Castle, 217; elected a 

 member of "The Club," 218; 

 elected President at International 

 Congress of Zoologists at Leyden, 

 224 ; resigns Directorship of 

 Natural History Museum owing 

 to failing health, 225, 232 ; ap- 

 preciation of his services by 

 Trustees, 225 ; his last years, 

 227-242 ; death, 243 ; memorial 

 service in St. Luke's Church, 

 Chelsea, 243 ; unveiling of me- 

 morial bust, 188 ; memorial 

 tablet in meeting -room of Zoo- 

 logical Society, 224 ; list of works, 

 Appendix HI, 



Hospital surgeon, 10 



Army surgeon, ii et seq. 



Lecturer on Anatomy, 37 



Curator of Hunterian Museum, 52 ; 

 arrangement of specimens, 54 ; 

 aids to study of anatomy, 55 ; 

 character of his system, 57 ; 

 "wet" preparations, 59; in- 

 genious labelling, 61 ; casts of 

 skulls, 63 ; study of brains of 

 apes, 65 ; method non- contro- 

 versial, 67 ; taxidermy, 69 ; 

 views on animal painting, 71 ; 

 osteological catalogue, 191 



Hunterian Professor — subjects of 

 lectures, 105, 106, Appendix II. 



Director of Natural History Museum, 

 137 ; arrangement of cases in 

 Great Hall, 138; his classifica- 

 tion, 140 ; taste in arrangement, 

 152 ; popularising the Museum, 

 156, 157; completion of "Whale 

 Room," 230, 232 



Cetacea, first studies, 166 ; essays 

 and lectures on whales and whale 



