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"Flower, William Henr"

 
 
 Flower, William Henry (detail)
   
1864
Note on the number of the cervical vertebrae in the Sirenia.
Nat. Hist. Rev. (n.s.) 4: 259-264.
 
 
 Flower, William Henry (detail)
   
1870
An introduction to the osteology of the Mammalia: being the substance of the course of lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1870.
London, Macmillan & Co.: xi + 344. Illus.
–Ed. 3: Flower (1885).
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 Flower, William Henry (detail)
   
1874
Description of the skull of a species of Halitherium (H. canhami) from the Red Crag of Suffolk.
Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London 30: 1-7. Pl. 1.
–Abstr.: Nature (London) 9: 13, 1873? Notice: R. Smith (1879). Description and discussion of H. canhami, n.sp., the first known fossil sirenian from England.
 
 
 Flower, William Henry (detail)
   
1876
Hunterian lectures on the relations of extinct to existing Mammalia. [?Part 5: Sirenia.]
Nature (London) 13: 409-410.
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 Flower, William Henry (detail)
   
1881
Notes on the habits of the manatee.
Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1881(2): 453-456. Aug. 1881 (read Apr. 5, 1881).
–Reviews literature on terrestrial locomotion by sirs. and expresses disbelief. Quotes accounts of the trapping of manatees on land in West Africa, and of a native society requiring capture of a manatee for admission. Accompanied by Crane's (1881) description of two captive manatees at Brighton.
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 Flower, William Henry (detail)
   
1884
On the arrangement of the orders and families of existing Mammalia.
Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1883(2): 178-186. Read Apr. 17, 1883.
–Considers sirs. not closely related to any other order (181); recognizes two families, Manatidae and Halicoridae (184).
 
 
 Flower, William Henry; Garson, J. G. (detail)
   
1884
Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, Recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.... Part II. Class Mammalia, other than man.
London, J. & A. Churchill (3 vols., 1884-1907): Vol. ?2: xliii + 779.
–Reports rib and vertebra fragments of Eocene "Halitherium" from Sanderville [= Sandersville], Georgia, presented by Sir Charles Lyell in 1868 (527). These specimens were apparently destroyed in World War II (Domning, Morgan & Ray, 1982: 12).
 
 
 Flower, William Henry (detail)
   
1885
An introduction to the osteology of the Mammalia. Ed. 3 (revised with the assistance of Hans Gadow).
London, Macmillan & Co.: xi + 382. 134 figs.
–German ed.: Leipzig, Engelmann, 1888.
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 Flower, William Henry; Lydekker, Richard (detail)
   
1891
An introduction to the study of mammals, living and extinct.
London, Adam & Charles Black: xvi + 763. 357 figs.
–General survey of the habits and anatomy of Recent and fossil sirs. (212-225).
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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