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will be seen by reference to the Zoological Society's publications, 

 constant communications were made to that Society (of which he 

 had become President in 1879, on the death of the late Marquess 

 of Tweeddale) on various zoological subjects to which he had 

 devoted attention. Until this last two years, in fact, when 

 failing health kept him at home, Flower was most constant in 

 his attendance at all the meetings of the Society, both those for 

 scientific purposes and those for ordinary business, and always 

 manifested the greatest interest in every branch of the Society's 

 affairs. 



Flower was elected a Fellow of the Eoyal Society at the early 

 age of thirty-three, and received one of its Royal Medals in 1882. 

 In 1878 he was President of the Biological Section of the British 

 Association, and in 1881 Chairman of the Department of Anthro- 

 pology. In 1889 he became President of the whole Association 

 for the meeting at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and delivered the 

 excellent address on Museums and their construction and 

 management which was published in the Report of the Associa- 

 tion for that year. From 1883 to 1885 Flower was also 

 President of the Anthropological Institute. He was nominated 

 President of the International Zoological Congress which met 

 at Cambridge last year, but failing health compelled him at the 

 last moment to transfer this office to Sir John Lubbock. He 

 had likewise received honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, 

 and other Universities, and was a corresponding member of the 

 Institute of France. He received the honour of the Commander- 

 ship of the Bath in 1887, and was made K. C.B. in 1892. 

 Finally, we may truly say that in private life no one was ever 

 more deservedly esteemed and beloved than the late Sir William 

 Flower. Most kind and affable to all classes, he was friends alike 

 with all — high and low, rich and poor. No one ever heard him 

 utter a rough word ; no one met with otherwise than a most 

 courteous reception when a question was to be asked or his advice 

 was sought. During a very long and intimate acquaintance 

 with the late Sir William Flower, the writer of this article never 

 heard him utter an unkind expression towards anyone, or knew 

 him swerve in the slightest degree from the most inflexible 

 rectitude of purpose. 



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