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'''William Henry Flower'''
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=== 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 />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.<br />death reported in report of the council for 1899<br />obit in Presidential address 1900 by C.H. Read<br />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.<br />