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Flower. SIR WILLIAM HENRY, K.C.B. (1892), was born at Stratford-on-Avon in 1831, served as assistant-surgeon in the Crimea, and afterwards became demonstrator of anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital. He was appointed in 1861 conservator of the Hunterian Museum, in 1869 Hunterian professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, and in 1884-98 was director of the natural history departments of the British Museum. In 1889 he was president of the British Association at Newcastle. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, LL.D. of Edinburgh and Dublin, and has written numerous memoirs connected with anatomy, zoology, and anthropology, as well as a work on the osteology of mammalia.