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William Henry Flower

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Sir William Henry Flower 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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Essays on Museums and Other Subjects Connected with Natural History, by Sir William Henry Flower
Essays on Museums and Other Subjects Connected with Natural History, by Sir William Henry Flower
William Henry Flower
Whales, and British and Colonial Whale Fisheries
Whales, and British and Colonial Whale Fisheries
William Henry Flower
List of the Specimens of Cetacea in the Zoological Department of the British Museum
List of the Specimens of Cetacea in the Zoological Department of the British Museum
British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology, William Henry Flower
Recent Memoirs on the Cetacea by Professors Eschricht, Reinhardt, and Lilljeborg
Recent Memoirs on the Cetacea by Professors Eschricht, Reinhardt, and Lilljeborg
William Henry Flower
Recent Memoirs on the Cetacca by Professors Eschricht, Reinhardt and Lilljeborg
Recent Memoirs on the Cetacca by Professors Eschricht, Reinhardt and Lilljeborg
William Henry Flower
Recent Memoirs on the Cetacea
Recent Memoirs on the Cetacea
William Henry Flower, Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, Wilhelm Lilljeborg
William Henry Flower
Address Delivered at the Ann Meeting of the Anthrop.al Instte... Jan. 27th. 1885, on the Classification of the Varieties of the Human Species
Address Delivered at the Ann Meeting of the Anthrop.al Instte... Jan. 27th. 1885, on the Classification of the Varieties of the Human Species
William Henry Flower
Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
William Henry Flower, Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum

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