Author:William Henry Flower

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Sir William Henry Flower (1831–1899)

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K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S.; Director of the British Natural History Museum; Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology; English comparative anatomist and surgeon. Flower became a leading authority on mammals, and especially on the primate brain. He supported Thomas Henry Huxley in an important controversy with Richard Owen about the human brain, and eventually succeeded Owen as Director of the Natural History Museum

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This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB9 by the initials "W. H. F."

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "W. H. F-r."

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. H. F."

Sir William Henry Flower

Works

• Fashion in deformity : as illustrated in the customs of barbarous and civilized races (1882) (external scan)
• An introduction to the osteology of the mammalia (1885) (external scan)
• List of the specimens of Cetacea in the Zoological Department of the British Museum (1885) (external scan)
• An introduction to the study of mammals, living and extinct (1891) (external scan)
• The horse : a study in natural history (1892) (external scan)
• Essays on museums and other subjects connected with natural history (1898) (external scan)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "Fashion in Deformity" in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (October 1880)
• "Aims of the Study of Anthropology" in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (September 1884)
• "Whales, Past and Present" in Popular Science Monthly, 27 (June 1885)
• "The Varieties of the Human Species" in Popular Science Monthly, 28 (January 1886)
• "The Wings of Birds" in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (December 1886)

Contributions to EB9

• “Lemming” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1882).
• “Tapir” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).
• “Tiger” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).

Contributions to the DNB

• Owen, Richard (1804-1892)

Contributions to EB11

• "Horse," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Ibex," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Kangaroo," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Lemming," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Leopard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Lion," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Mammalia," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Mammoth," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Mandrill," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Marten," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Mink," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Narwhal," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Otter," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Platypus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Porcupine," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Rabbit," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Rhinoceros," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Tapir," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Tiger," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Walrus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Whale," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Wolf," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Zebra," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Works about Flower

• Sclater, P.L. (1899)—'The Late Sir William Henry Flower,' in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 3, issue 698 (August), p. 337–340
• "Flower, Sir William Henry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Flower, William Henry," in Dictionary of National Biography Supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1901) in 3 vols.