23,182
edits
Changes
Bot: Automated import of articles
{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = William Henry
| name = Flower
| honorific_prefix = Prof.
| honorific_suffix = LLD, FRS, FRCS, FLS
| image = File:Flower,_William_Henry.jpg
| birth_date = 1831
| death_date = 1899
| address = 26 Stanhope Gardens, SW
| occupation = medical<br />museum work
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1878
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = Ordinary fellow
| left =
| clubs =
| societies = Royal Society<br />Royal College of Surgeons<br />Linnean Society of London<br />Anthropological Society of Paris<br />Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1878 Member<br />AI Council 1879 Vice President<br />AI Council 1880 Vice President<br />AI Council 1881 Vice President<br />AI Council 1882 Vice President<br />AI Council 1883 Vice President<br />AI Council 1884 President<br />AI Council 1885 Vice President
=== House Notes ===
Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris, Hunterian Prof. of Com. Anat., and Conservator of the<br />Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields<br />Director of the Natural History Department of the BM at South Kensington<br />Friend of Busk and Rolleston<br />obit in Presidential address 1900 by C.H. Read
=== 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.<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Catalogue of Human Osteology<br /><br />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]<br />
=== House Publications ===
Dissection of a Bushwoman AR 1867<br />Osteology and affinities of the natives of the Andaman Islands JAI 1879<br />Cranial characters of the natives of the Fiji Islands 1880<br />A collection of monumental heads and artificially deformed crania from Mallicollo 1881
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = William Henry
| name = Flower
| honorific_prefix = Prof.
| honorific_suffix = LLD, FRS, FRCS, FLS
| image = File:Flower,_William_Henry.jpg
| birth_date = 1831
| death_date = 1899
| address = 26 Stanhope Gardens, SW
| occupation = medical<br />museum work
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1878
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = Ordinary fellow
| left =
| clubs =
| societies = Royal Society<br />Royal College of Surgeons<br />Linnean Society of London<br />Anthropological Society of Paris<br />Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1878 Member<br />AI Council 1879 Vice President<br />AI Council 1880 Vice President<br />AI Council 1881 Vice President<br />AI Council 1882 Vice President<br />AI Council 1883 Vice President<br />AI Council 1884 President<br />AI Council 1885 Vice President
=== House Notes ===
Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris, Hunterian Prof. of Com. Anat., and Conservator of the<br />Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields<br />Director of the Natural History Department of the BM at South Kensington<br />Friend of Busk and Rolleston<br />obit in Presidential address 1900 by C.H. Read
=== 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.<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Catalogue of Human Osteology<br /><br />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]<br />
=== House Publications ===
Dissection of a Bushwoman AR 1867<br />Osteology and affinities of the natives of the Andaman Islands JAI 1879<br />Cranial characters of the natives of the Fiji Islands 1880<br />A collection of monumental heads and artificially deformed crania from Mallicollo 1881
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
