William Henry Flower

Prof. William Henry Flower LLD, FRS, FRCS, FLS
Born	1831
Died	1899
Residence	26 Stanhope Gardens, SW Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC [1883] 26 Stanhope Gardens, South Kensington, SW; and Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW [1888]
Occupation	medical museum work
Society Membership membership Ordinary fellow left 1899 deceased elected_AI 1878 societies Royal Society Royal College of Surgeons Linnean Society of London Anthropological Society of Paris Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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Office Notes

AI Council 1878 Member
AI Council 1879 Vice President
AI Council 1880 Vice President
AI Council 1881 Vice President
AI Council 1882 Vice President
AI Council 1883 Vice President
AI Council 1884 President
AI Council 1885 Vice President

House Notes

Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris, Hunterian Prof. of Com. Anat., and Conservator of the
Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields
Director of the Natural History Department of the BM at South Kensington
Friend of Busk and Rolleston
1899.07.04 Death of Sir W.H. Flower. This was spoken of with sincere regret by the Chairman, the President, and other Members present. A letter of condolence was at once sent on behalf of the Institute, and a deputation, consisting of the President, Mr Rudler, and Dr Garson, was appointed to attend the Funeral Service at St Luke’s.
death reported in report of the council for 1899
obit in Presidential address 1900 by C.H. Read
apparently it was him who gave the Anthropological Society's album of photos to the Pitt Rivers Museum

Notes From Elsewhere

Sir William Henry Flower KCB FRCS FRS (30 November 1831 – 1 July 1899) was an English comparative anatomist and surgeon. Flower became a leading authority on mammals, and especially on the primate brain. He supported Thomas Henry Huxley in an important controversy with Richard Owen about the human brain, and eventually succeeded Owen as Director of the Natural History Museum.

Publications

External Publications

Catalogue of Human Osteology

Diagrams of the nerves of the human body. London 1861. Observations of the posterior lobes of the cerebrum of the Quadrumana, with a description of the brain of a Galago. Proc Roy Soc 1860-62 xi, 376-81, 508; Phil Trans 1862 185-201. Notes on the anatomy of Lithecia Monachus (Geoff.). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London December 9, 1862 1-8 On the brain of the Javan Loris (Stenops javenicus). Read 1862, publ. Zool Soc Trans 1866 103-111. On the brain of the Siamang (Hylobatis syndactylis). Nat Hist Rev 1863 279-257. Notes on the skeletons of whales in the principal museums of Holland and Belgium, with descriptions of two species apparently new to science. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London November 8, 1864 384-420. An introduction to the osteology of the Mammalia. London 1870; 2nd ed 1876; 3rd ed with Hans Gadow 1883. On the brain of the red Howling Monkey (Mycetes seniculus). Zool Soc Proc 1864 335-338. Fashion in deformity. 1885. The Horse: a study in natural history. 1890. Introduction to the study of Mammals, living and extinct with Richard Lydekker. London 1891. Essays on Museums and other subjects. London 1898. [includes appreciations of Huxley and Owen]

House Publications

Dissection of a Bushwoman AR 1867
Osteology and affinities of the natives of the Andaman Islands JAI 1879
Cranial characters of the natives of the Fiji Islands 1880
A collection of monumental heads and artificially deformed crania from Mallicollo 1881