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Credit: Sir William Flower / by R. Lydekker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Mr, and Mis. Drummond, of Megginch. There he met other friends, such as Dean and Lady Augusta Stanley [after whom a son and a daughter were respectively named] and Colonel Drummond-Hay, of Seggieden, brother of Mr. Drummond. Moreover, he was always interested in the splendid collection of birds made by Colonel Drummond-Hay during his wanderings with the Black Watch. Another passage from the same memoir of his life runs as follows :— One side of Sir William's life deserves special notice, viz., his social influence, and the endeavour to popularise the great institution with which he was officially con- nected. These influences, developed at the Museum of the College of Surgeons with great success, were brought to bear on a much wider circle in connection with the National Museum and as President of the Zoological Society ; and no one was more fitted than he —either for the courtly circle or the large gatherings of working men who flocked on Saturday afternoons to the galleries of the museum. In all his many and varied social functions in his prominent positions he was ably seconded by one who identified herself with his every engagement, and to whom his last volume of collected addresses was dedicated. A man of wide sympathies, he is found at one time addressing a Civil Service dinner, at another a Volunteer gathering, now descanting on evolu- tion to a Church Congress, and again speaking at a Mayoral banquet, a girls' school, or an industrial exhi- bition. The strain on his physique demanded by these eflbrts would have been great to an ordinary man, but it must have been serious to one whose main energies](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21975516_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
