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in this quiet manner ; also statesmen, as the Right 

 Hon. W. H. Smith, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, 

 W. E. Gladstone, Mr, Hugh Childers, Mr. Anthony 

 Mundella, Lord George Hamilton, Lord North- 

 brooke, Lord Kimberley, Lord Northcote, Lord 

 Stanhope, his lamented brother the Rt. Hon. 

 Edward Stanhope, Admiral Prince Victor of 

 Hohenlohe, and many others." 



Among Sir William's publications in the years 

 from 1883 to 1885 were his notes on the Evolution 

 of the Cetacea in 1883, notes on the Nerves of Two 

 Genera of the Delphinidae in 1884, notes on the 

 Teeth of a Young Capybara in 1884, Observations 

 on the Osteology of the Natives of the Andaman 

 Islands in 1884, and notes on Skulls of the Bottle- 

 nosed Whale, an essay on the Size of Teeth as a 

 Character of Race, on the Classification of the 

 Varieties of the Human Species, a list of the 

 Cetacea in the Zoological Department of the British 

 Museum, and a most interesting lecture, given at 

 the Royal Institution, on the Wings of Birds. 



In May 1885 Flower was elected a Trustee of 

 the Hunterian Museum. It will be remembered 

 that he was also President of the Zoological Society. 

 His administrative work at the Museum was also in 

 this period not only a source of daily care, but was 

 weighted with the responsibihty of his very con- 

 siderable schemes for the development of the Great 

 Hall. Yet to these duties he added a very large 

 amount of other and exacting public and scientific 



