# Sir William Flower

Author: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915; Green, J. Reynolds (Joseph Reynolds), 1848-1914 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76480

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Sir+William+Flower+Lydekker&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 the pursuit he loved best, but likewise to attain the highest possible success in, and to be appointed to the most important and influential post connected with that profession. As he tells us in that delightful book, _Essays on Museums_, he was pleased to designate as a “museum” when a boy at home a miscellaneous collection of natural history objects, kept at first in a cardboard box, but subsequently housed in a cupboard. And as a man he became the respected head of the greatest Natural History Museum in the Britis...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-william-flower-76480/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-william-flower-76480/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-william-flower-76480/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-william-flower-76480/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-william-flower-76480/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-william-flower-76480/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part II. Mammalia (1884), written in conjunction with Dr. J. G. Garson.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-william-flower-76480/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-william-flower-76480/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-william-flower-76480/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-william-flower-76480/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-william-flower-76480/chapters/1/index.md)