“The fact now seems clearly demonstrated that at various spots across the great African Continent, within a few degrees north and south of the Equator, extending from the Atlantic coast to near the shores of the Albert Nyanza (30° E. long.) and perhaps ... even further to the east, south of the Galla land, are still surviving, in scattered districts, communities of these small Negroes, all much resembling each other in size, appearance, and habits, and dwelling mostly apart from their taller neighbours, by whom they are everywhere surrounded.... In many parts, especially at the west, they are obviously holding their own with difficulty, if not actually disappearing, and there is much about their condition of civilisation, and the situations in which they are found, to induce us to look upon them, as in the case of the Bushmen in the south and the Negritos in the east, as the remains of a population which occupied the land before the incoming of the present dominant races. If the account of the Nasamenians, related by Herodotus, be accepted as historical, the river they came to, ‘flowing from west to east,’ must have been the Niger, and the northward range of the dwarfish people far more extensive twenty-three centuries ago than it is at the present time.” Sir William’s only remaining anthropological paper of any importance appears to be one on skulls of the aboriginal natives of Jamaica, published in the _Journal_ of the Anthropological Institute for 1890. It should not, however, be forgotten that, as more fully narrated in an earlier chapter, one of the last acts of Sir William’s scientific career was to organise the arrangement of the anthropological series in the Natural History Branch of the British Museum—an undertaking of which he was not spared to witness the completion (so far as anything of this nature can be said to be anywhere near “complete”). If he had left nothing but his anthropological labours to bear testimony to his zeal for science and his capacity for organisation, Sir William Flower would have deserved well of posterity. And it should be recorded to his credit that the majority of naturalists, at all events in this country, are employing, with some minor modifications, not only his anthropological classification, but that of mammals in general. It is true that both these schemes were based on the labours and ideas of his predecessors, but it was reserved for him to so modify and improve them as to lead to the almost universal acceptation with which they have been received. CHAPTER VIII MUSEUM AND MISCELLANEOUS WORK Much of the substance of this chapter has been already alluded to in the earlier portions of the present volume; but it has been found convenient to give Sir William’s views on the objects and arrangement of museums somewhat more fully in this place, while reference is also made to various items of miscellaneous work which do not fall within the scope of either of the three previous chapters.