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Sir William Flower
Richard Lydekker and J. Reynolds Green
He ran the Natural History Museum and reshaped how a nation displayed its animals. Richard Lydekker follows William Flower from the College of Surgeons to the directorship of the museum and the presidency of the Zoological Society. A life spent among skeletons, specimens, and the science of comparative anatomy. The story of a great Victorian curator.
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48 chapters
- 1SIR WILLIAM FLOWER
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4Life of Flower CHAPTER I GENERAL SKETCH OF FLOWER’S LIFE
- 5CHAPTER II AS CONSERVATOR OF THE MUSEUM OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, AND HUNTERIAN PROFESSOR. [1861-1884.]
- 6CHAPTER III AS DIRECTOR OF THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM [1884-1898]
- 7CHAPTER IV AS PRESIDENT OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY [1879-1899]
- 8CHAPTER V GENERAL ZOOLOGICAL WORK
- 9CHAPTER VI WORK ON THE CETACEA
- 10CHAPTER VII ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK
- 11CHAPTER VIII MUSEUM AND MISCELLANEOUS WORK
- 12FOOTNOTES
- 13APPENDIX A SOME BIOGRAPHICAL AND OBITUARY NOTICES OF SIR WILLIAM FLOWER.
- 14APPENDIX B LIST OF THE MORE IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS OF SIR WILLIAM FLOWER.
- 15A. Books and Separate Pamphlets.
- 16B. Zoological and Anatomical Memoirs, Articles, and Notes published in Scientific Serials, etc.
- 17a. In the “Philosophical Transactions” of the Royal Society of London.
- 18b. In the “Proceedings” of the Royal Society of London.
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