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Rh will be seen by reference to the Zoological Society's publications, constant communications were made to that Society (of which he had become President in 1879, on the death of the late Marquess of Tweeddale) on various zoological subjects to which he had devoted attention. Until this last two years, in fact, when failing health kept him at home, Flower was most constant in his attendance at all the meetings of the Society, both those for scientific purposes and those for ordinary business, and always manifested the greatest interest in every branch of the Society's affairs.

Flower was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at the early age of thirty-three, and received one of its Royal Medals in 1882. In 1878 he was President of the Biological Section of the British Association, and in 1881 Chairman of the Department of Anthropology. In 1889 he became President of the whole Association for the meeting at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and delivered the excellent address on Museums and their construction and management which was published in the Report of the Association for that year. From 1883 to 1885 Flower was also President of the Anthropological Institute. He was nominated President of the International Zoological Congress which met at Cambridge last year, but failing health compelled him at the last moment to transfer this office to Sir John Lubbock. He had likewise received honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, and other Universities, and was a corresponding member of the Institute of France. He received the honour of the Commandership of the Bath in 1887, and was made K.C.B. in 1892. Finally, we may truly say that in private life no one was ever more deservedly esteemed and beloved than the late Sir William Flower. Most kind and affable to all classes, he was friends alike with all—high and low, rich and poor. No one ever heard him utter a rough word; no one met with otherwise than a most courteous reception when a question was to be asked or his advice was sought. During a very long and intimate acquaintance with the late Sir William Flower, the writer of this article never heard him utter an unkind expression towards anyone, or knew him swerve in the slightest degree from the most inflexible rectitude of purpose.

The published works and memoirs of the late Sir William