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having joined it at its beginning in 1858, and he helped it often, 

 both as a reader of papers and as a leader of excursions. 



A good observer, an enthusiastic worker, unselfish and kind- 

 hearted, his end was probably as he would have wished, and we may 

 say a happy one, for he died in harness. He took a large share in 

 the work of the British Association at Dover, helping in the local 

 arrangements. He attended the meeting, read a paper (since 

 privately printed) on Coast- erosion, illustrated by his own lantern- 

 slides, and at the end of the meeting conducted the excursion to 

 E-ichborough on the Thursday (September 21st), being in good 

 spirits and apparently in good health. But he returned home the 

 next day only to die, from failure of the heart's action. 



K. A. Eskrigge, J.P., was elected a Fellow in 1866, and died on 

 November 11th, 1898. 



By some oversight the death of this gentleman was not reported 

 until some time after the last annual meeting. Many years ago he 

 did some useful geological work in Lancashire and Cheshire. 



Sir William Henry Flower, K.C.B., F.R.S., Pres.Z.S., elected 

 a Fellow of this Society in 1866, died on July 1st, 1899. 



He was born in 1831 at Stratford-on-Avon, and received his 

 medical education at University College, London, where he had a 

 distinguished career. 



He served as an Assistant Surgeon in the Army during the 

 Crimean War, and then became Assistant Surgeon in the Middlesex 

 Hospital ; but in 1861 he gave up practice on becoming Curator of 

 the Hunterian Museum, succeeding to the Hunterian Professorship 

 in 1869, and holding the two posts until 1884, when he became 

 Director of the Natural History Museum, which post he held for 

 14 years. He gave us papers on the Affinities of Thylacoleo and on 

 two Red Crag mammals, Halitherium and Hycenarctos. 



Flower received many honours in recognition of his zoological 

 as well as of his public work ; but his greatest distinction is that 

 he became our chief authority on natural history museums, the 

 organization and educational development of which formed the 

 great work of his well-spent life. 



His kindness and courtesy made him popular among his fellows, 

 and the beautiful memorial service held at St. Luke's Church, 

 Chelsea, was fully attended, our own Society being strongly 

 represented. 1 



1 See also a long notice by Dr. H. Woodward in Geol. Mag. 1899, pp. 381-84. 



