Sir William Flower

Born on 30th November 1831 at his father’s house, “The Hill,” Stratford-on-Avon, William Henry Flower was a man who had the rare good fortune not only to make a profession of th...

The death, in 1861, of the eminent histological anatomist, Professor Quekett, rendered vacant the important post of Conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of...

On the resignation in 1884 by Sir Richard Owen of the post of Superintendent of the Natural History Departments of the British Museum, which four years previously had been trans...

During a portion of his tenure of office as Conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, and throughout the whole of his Directorship of the Natural History Museu...

In the course of the preceding chapters numerous more or less incidental references have been made to the contributions of Sir William Flower to biological literature, as well a...

Next at any rate to the study of the various races of the human species (which he took up seriously later on in his career), the group of mammals to which Flower devoted special...

The study of the physical characters of the various native races of the human species—that is to say, anthropology, in contradistinction to ethnology—occupied a very prominent p...

Much of the substance of this chapter has been already alluded to in the earlier portions of the present volume; but it has been found convenient to give Sir William’s views on...

13. “Observations on the Posterior Lobes of the Cerebrum of the Quadrumana, with the Description of the Brain of a Galago,” vol. clii. pp. 185-201 (1862). Abstract in _Proc. Roy...