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of it. The Hunterian Professorsliip of Comparative Anatomy and 

 Physiology (which for twenty-five years had been held in con- 

 junction with the conservatorship of the Museum by Professor Owen) 

 had been sepai'ated from it some time previously, and was then held 

 by Professor Huxley, who, however, was compelled by the pressure 

 of other engagements to relinquish it in 1869, when the two 

 offices were again united by the appointment of Mr. Flower to 

 the Professorship, the duties of which consist in the delivery of 

 a short course of lectures, on different subjects each 3'ear, illustrated 

 T)y the preparations in the Museum. 



Professor Flower was elected a Fellow of the Eoyal Society in 

 1864, and served several times on the Council. In 1879, on the 

 death of the Marquis of Tweeddale, President of the Zoological 

 Society, he was elected to succeed him in that office, and he held 

 the Presidency up to the time of his death, a period of twenty years ; 

 he had previously served for years on the Council and as one of 

 the Vice-Presidents. He was elected a Vice-President of the 

 Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1879, and 

 President in 1883. 



In connection with the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, he has held the offices of Vice-President of Section D 

 (Biology), Norwich, 1868 ; President of the same section at Dublin, 

 1878 ; President of the Section of Anthropology at York, 1881 ; of 

 Biology at Oxford, 1894; and President of the British Association 

 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1889. He was also President of the Section 

 of Anatomy at the International Medical Congress in 1881. He 

 was several times Examiner for the Natural Science Trijios in the 

 University of Cambridge, and delivered lectures at the Eoyal 

 Institution, Albemarle Street. 



In 1884 Professor Flower was appointed Director of the Natural 

 History Departments of the British Museum, Cromwell Koad, as 

 successor to Professor Sir Eichard Owen, retired ; which post he 

 held till October, 1898, when failing health compelled him to 

 relinquish active work, and he was succeeded by Professor E. Eay 

 Lankester, D.C.L., F.E.S., the present Director of that Institution. 



The Eoyal Society awarded him one of its Eoyal Medals in 

 November, 1882, for his contributions to the Morphology and 

 Classification of the Mammalia, and to Anthropology. He received 

 the honorary degrees of LL.D. of the University of Edinburgh and 

 of Dublin in 1878, and D.C.L. of Durham in 1889. He was made 

 a C.B. in 1887 and a K.C.B. in 1892. 



Among Sir William Flower's contributions to Anatomy and 

 Zoology may be mentioned "A Supplement to the Catalogue of the 

 Pathological Series in the Museum of the College of Surgeons," 

 1863; "A Catalogue of the Series of Human Osteology," 1879; 

 "Introduction to the Osteology of the Mammalia," 1870; " Fashion 

 in Deformity, as illustrated by the Customs of Barbarous and 

 Civilized Eaces," 1881 ; " Observations upon the Posterior Lobes of 

 the Cerebrum of the Quadrumana," 1862 ; " On the Commissures 

 of the Cerebral Hemispheres of the Marsupialia, as compared with 

 those of the Placental Mammals," 1865 ; " On the Development and 



