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that they could not reconcile them with the founda- 

 tion of old beliefs. He said of Baden Powell : — 



The congregations of several of the principal London churches 

 had the opportunity of hearing his sermons, which were remark- 

 able for the masterly manner in which important Christian truths 

 were enunciated with the clearness and precision of a mathe- 

 matical demonstration. His principal efforts were to define the 

 limits between the objects of faith and of knowledge, and to 

 show that the progress of modern scientific discovery, although 

 necessitating modifications in many of the still prevailing ideas 

 with which the Christian religion became encrusted in the days 

 of ignorance and superstition, is in no way incompatible with a 

 sincere and practical acceptance of its great and fundamental 

 truths. 



The year 1861, which saw the birth of the 

 Flowers' second child, Caroline Mary, on Sep- 

 tember 12, proved the last of his professional life 

 as a surgeon. 



During the exercise of his profession at the 

 Hospital he had steadily kept up his interests in 

 Comparative Anatomy and Zoology. Besides read- 

 ing papers before the Zoological Society, he had 

 worked with such freshness and success in the 

 Middlesex Hospital Museum that the general Court 

 of Governors sent to him a resolution, passed 

 unanimously, that " the best thanks of this Court 

 be conveyed to W. H. Flower, Esq., for his eminent 

 services during the past year (i860) as Curator of 

 the Museum of the College." The reports of the 

 Museum Committee stated that " he has manifested 

 no less judgment in the selection of valuable new 



