appointment to the Museum, in 1892 he was knighted as a KCB. He also received the Jubilee Medal and the Royal Prussian order "Pour le Mérite". He and his wife led an active life outside his work, over the years meeting many leading figures in British society. Among their friends were the poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the leading churchman Dean Stanley. Illness and overwork led him to take retirement from the Natural History Museum in August 1898 and he died at his home in South Kensington on I July 1899, aged 67. His remains were buried with his wife's family at Stone in Buckinghamshire. Family Flower married Georgiana Rosetta Smyth, on 15 April 1858, at Stone in Buckinghamshire. Rosetta was the youngest daughter of Admiral William Henry Smyth, an astronomer and hydrographer, and his wife Eliza Anne (Annarella) Warington. Flower and his wife Rosetta had four daughters: Caroline Mary Flower, 1861–1945 Vera Josephine Flower, 1863–1938 Geraldine Rose Flower, 1867–1940 Augusta Frances Ellen Flower, 1882–1959 and three sons: Arthur Smyth Flower, 1860–1936 Major Stanley Smyth Flower, 1871–1946, zoologist. Victor Augustine Flower, 1875–1917 Upon his marriage to Rosetta, Flower gained as brothers-in-law: the mathematician and liberal theologian, the Rev. Prof. Baden Powell (father of 1st Baron Baden-Powell ("B-P"), founder of the Scouting movement), the husband of Rosetta's sister, Henrietta Grace Smyth Warington Wilkinson Smyth, Rosetta's eldest brother Charles Piazzi Smyth, Rosetta's second brother General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth, Rosetta's third brother. Publications Flowers publications were all but a few on mammals (and surgery); he was not a field biologist, nor a student of the other vertebrate groups. Diagrams of the nerves of the human body. London 1861. 'Observations of the posterior lobes of the cerebrum of the Quadrumana, with a description of the brain of a Galago'. Proc Roy Soc. 1860–62 xi, 376–81, 508; Phil Trans 1862 185–201. 'Notes on the anatomy of Lithecia Monachus (Geoff.).' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 9 December 1862 1–8 'On the brain of the Javan Loris (Stenops javenicus).' Read 1862, publ. Zool Soc Trans 1866 103–111. 'On the brain of the Siamang (Hylobatis syndactylis).' Nat Hist Rev 1863 279–257. 'Notes on the skeletons of whales in the principal museums of Holland and Belgium, with descriptions of two species apparently new to science.' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 8 November 1864 384–420. An introduction to the osteology of the Mammalia. London