William Henry Flower, K.C.B., F.R.C.S., LL.D., D.C.L., Sc.D., F.R.S., F.Z.S., F.L.S

Abstract

THE distinguished naturalist whose death has recently occurred was the second son of the late Mr. Edward Fordham Flower, the founder of the well-known brewery at Stratford-on-Avon, and dear to all lovers of animals on account of his crusade against the bearingrein. Sir William Flower was born in November 1831. He was educated at private schools and at University College, London, where he took Sharpey's gold medal in Physiology, and Grant's silver medal in Zoology. He became M.B. of the University of London in 1851, and joined the Medical Department of the Army in 1854, serving in the Crimea, where his health broke down. On his return to England he became Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital, and Curator of the Museum, intending to practise as a surgeon. Here he published his first work, “Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body,” and also wrote in Holmes' “System of Surgery ” on “Injuries of the Upper Extremities.”