Such a wide range of knowledge is possible to few men at the present day, but it was possessed to a very considerable extent by Mr. Flower, even at this comparatively early stage of his career; and as the appointment was congenial to his tastes, he applied for, and in due course was elected to, the Conservatorship. The acceptance of this involved the complete abandonment of practice as a surgeon—a course of action which, I believe, was never regretted. For eight years Mr. Flower discharged the duties of the Conservatorship to the satisfaction of the Council of the College; and when, in 1869, Professor Huxley found himself compelled by the pressure of other duties to relinquish the Hunterian chair, Flower was elected in 1870 to fill the vacancy. He thus, for the first time in his career, became entitled to the designation of “Professor,” and he continued to hold the two offices till his transference to the British Museum. Here it may perhaps be well to mention, in order to avoid confusion, that in the early part of Flower’s official career at the College of Surgeons the post of Articulator to the museum was held by a name-sake—Mr. James Flower. For the first eight years of his connection with the museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields the time and attention of Flower were almost entirely devoted to the improvement, augmentation, and rearrangement of the collections under his charge; and even when his duties as Hunterian Professor claimed a large share of his time, no efforts were spared to maintain the former rate of progress in the museum. To record in detail the improvements and alterations made in the museum under Flower’s able administration would obviously not only occupy a large amount of space but would, likewise, be wearisome to the reader. Attention will therefore be concentrated on a few salient features in connection with his work. Although the anatomy of man naturally took a prominent place in what used to be called the “physiological” series, yet the preparations illustrating this subject were in the main restricted to the viscera; the details of regional anatomy and of the arrangement and distribution of muscles, vessels, and nerves not finding a place in the original scheme of the museum. This appeared to Flower to be a serious omission, and he soon set to work to exhibit human anatomy—largely on account of its paramount importance to the members of the medical profession—on a much more extensive scale than was previously the case, thereby affording by means of permanent preparations a ready demonstration, accessible at all times, of the structure of every part of the human frame. To those who have already learnt their anatomy, it has been well remarked, and who wish to refresh their memory, or verify a fact about which some passing doubt may be felt, or to those who are precluded by circumstances from visiting the dissecting room, the preparations of this series must prove of great value.