Flower, Sir William Henry, (1831-1899), Knight Zoologist

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Surname:	Flower
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	William Henry
Gender:	Male
Date:	1831-1899
History:	Director of Natural History Museum, London, 1884 to 1898. From 1895 he was Keeper of Zoology as well as Director. Previously, from 1861, he had been conservator of the Royal College of Surgeon's Museum (curator of the Hunterian Museum). Knighted 1892.
Biography:	ODNB link for Flower, Sir William Henry (1831-1899) Knight Zoologist
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P275942 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P156921 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1884-1892: British Museum (Natural History): Director's Office: Correspondence of the Director	The Natural History Museum Archives, London	DF 932
2	1831-1899: notebooks, drawings and papers	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	Z MSS FLO
3	1884-92: corresp as director of the natural history departments	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	DF932	NRA 33921 Natural
4	1845-83: papers	Royal College of Surgeons of England	Flower	NRA 9521 RCS scientific See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
5	corresp, incl letters from Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace	John Innes Foundation Historical Collections		NRA 949 Innes
6	1889-99: letters to CE Fagan	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	DF939	NRA 33921 Natural
7	1869: letters from JE Gray	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L MSS GRAYJ A	See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
8	1869-98: letters (13) to ACLG Gunther and RWT Gunther	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L MSS GUNTHER COLL	See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
9	1862-95: letters (11) to Thomas Huxley	Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit	B/HUXLEY	NRA 8194 Huxley
10	letters to Othniel Marsh	Yale University Libraries: Sterling Memorial Library		See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
11	1882-90: letters to Sir EB Poulton	Oxford University: Museum of Natural History		NRA 42507 Oxford