Lives & Memoirs
Sir William Flower
Richard Lydekker · narrated by Heath
2026
5h 34m
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The life of Sir William Flower, the great Victorian naturalist and director of the Natural History Museum, told by fellow scientist Richard Lydekker. It follows a career spent classifying the animal kingdom and shaping public science. A portrait of curiosity in the age of Darwin.
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10 chapters
- 1PREFACE3m
- 2Life of Flower CHAPTER I GENERAL SKETCH OF FLOWER’S LIFE52m
- 3CHAPTER II AS CONSERVATOR OF THE MUSEUM OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, AND HUNTERIAN PROFESSOR. [1861-1884.]43m
- 4CHAPTER III AS DIRECTOR OF THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM [1884-1898]55m
- 5CHAPTER IV AS PRESIDENT OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY [1879-1899]10m
- 6CHAPTER V GENERAL ZOOLOGICAL WORK1h 15m
- 7CHAPTER VI WORK ON THE CETACEA23m
- 8CHAPTER VII ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK28m
- 9CHAPTER VIII MUSEUM AND MISCELLANEOUS WORK16m
- 10APPENDIX B LIST OF THE MORE IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS OF SIR WILLIAM FLOWER.30m
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