Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899
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Name (Latin)
Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899
Other forms of name
Flower, W. H. (William Henry), 1831-1899
Flower, William Henry, Sir, 1831-1899
Date of birth
1831-11-30
Date of death
1899-07-01
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, January 27th 1885, on the classification of the varieties of the human species, 1885:title page (President, Professor W.H. Flower, LL.D., V.P.R.S., P.Z.S., &c., director of the Natural History Department of the British Museum)
- De Gruyter World Biographical(Sir William Henry Flower; born: November 30, 1831 (Stratford-on-Avon); died: July 1, 1899 (26 Stanhope gardens, London))
- LCCN 04-13348: His An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct, 1891(hdg.: Flower, Sir William Henry, 1831-1899; usage: William Henry Flower)
- LC data base, 11-23-87(hdg.: Flower, William Henry, Sir, 1831-1899; usage: William Henry Flower)
- Brit. Lib. cat. online, 4 Oct. 2004(hdg.: Flower, William Henry, Sir, K.C.B., Director of the British Museum (Natural History))
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Wikipedia description:
Sir William Henry Flower (30 November 1831 – 1 July 1899) was an English surgeon, museum curator and comparative anatomist, who 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 in London.
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