Sir William’s services to the museum, as well as to science in general, are commemorated by a bust, executed by Mr. T. Brock, and placed on the south side of the entrance to the first “bay” of the Index Museum. The funds necessary for this were raised by the “Flower Memorial Committee,” to which Mr. F. E. Beddard, Prosector of the Zoological Society, acted as Secretary. The bust, which in a profile view, is an excellent likeness of the late Director, was unveiled on 26th July 1903, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of a representative assemblage of men of science and personal friends, as well as of statesmen. The proceedings were opened by Professor E. Ray Lankester, the Director of the Museum, who moved that Lord Avebury (better known in scientific circles as Sir John Lubbock), the Chairman of the Memorial Committee, should take the chair. The Chairman, having taken his seat, expressed his pleasure in being called upon to preside at the ceremony, on account of his admiration and respect for the late Sir William Flower, and for the services he had rendered to zoological science. Dr. Philip Lutley Sclater, the Secretary of the Zoological Society, also spoke as an old and intimate friend of the late Director, with whom he had been brought into specially close contact during the long period the latter presided over the Zoological Society. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a brief speech previous to unveiling the bust, referred to two traits in Flower’s character which had specially struck his Grace, and which were seldom found associated in the same individual, one of these being his great love of talking on his own special subjects of study, and the other that, in spite of this, he never bored even the least interested of his hearers. During his Directorship Flower had done more to popularise the museum, and museums generally, than had any other man of science. The proceedings closed with the usual vote of thanks to the Chairman. In addition to writing numerous scientific memoirs, Flower found time during his tenure of the Directorship of the museum to prepare for publication two volumes of considerable interest. The first was the one on _The Horse_, issued in 1891, to which fuller reference is made in a later chapter; and the second, the well-known _Essays on Museums_, which appeared in 1898, and consists of a collected series of essays, articles, addresses, etc., on natural history and kindred subjects. A melancholy interest attached to this volume (which is dedicated to Lady Flower), since, as we are told in the preface, it was compiled during a period of enforced restraint from active occupation, which was evidently only the prelude to the final breakdown. It was also during his Directorship of the Museum that _The Study of Mammals_ saw the light. CHAPTER IV AS PRESIDENT OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY [1879-1899]