FLOWER, SIR WILLIAM HENRY Eng lish biologist, was born at Stratford-on-Avon on Nov. 3o, 1831. He took his M.B. at London in 1851, and went out to the Crimea as assistant-surgeon. On his return he became a member of the surgical staff of the Middlesex hospital, London, and in i 86r curator of the Hunterian museum of the Royal College of Sur geons. In 187o he also became Hunterian professor, and in 1884 was appointed to the directorship of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington where he endeavoured to satisfy the de mands of both the public and the student. He died in London on July 1, 1899. He made valuable contributions to structural an thropology and to the comparative anatomy of mammals.
His chief publications are: Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body (1861); The Osteology of the Mammalia (187o) ; Fashion in Deformity (1881) ; The Horse: a Study in Natural History (189o) ; Introduction to the Study of Mammals, Living and Extinct (1891) ; Essays on Museums and other Subjects (1898) .
See C. J. Cornish, Sir W. H. Flower 0904), and R. Lydekker, Sir William Flower (1906) .