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See also: FLOWER, SIB . See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (1831-1899), See also:English biologist, was See also:born at See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon on the 3oth of See also:November 1831. Choosing See also:medicine as his profession, he began his studies at University See also:College, See also:London, where he showed See also:special aptitude for See also:physiology and See also:comparative See also:anatomy and took his M.B. degree in 1851. He then joined the See also:Army Medical Service, and went out to the See also:Crimea as assistant-surgeon, receiving the See also:medal with four clasps. On his return to See also:England he became a member of the surgical See also:staff of the See also:Middlesex See also:hospital, London, and in 1861 succeeded J. T. Quekett as See also:curator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1870 he also became Hunterian See also:professor, and in 1884, on the See also:death of See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Owen, was appointed to the directorship of the Natural See also:History Museum at See also:South See also:Kensington. He died in London on the 1st of See also:July 1899. He made valuable contributions to structural See also:anthropology, See also:publishing, for example, See also:complete and accurate measurements of no less than 1300 human skulls, and as a comparative anatomist he ranked high, devoting himself especially to the study of the See also:mammalia. He was also a leading authority on the arrangement of museums. The greater See also:part of his See also:life was spent in their See also:administration, and in consequence he held very decided views as to the principles upon which their specimens should be set out. He insisted on the importance of distinguishing between collections intended for the use of specialists and those designed for the instruction of the See also: general public, pointing out that it was as futile to See also:present to the former a number of merely typical forms as to provide the latter with a See also:long See also:series of specimens differing only in the most See also:minute details. His ideas, which were largely and success-fully applied to the museums of which he had See also:charge, gained wide approval, and their See also:influence entitles him to be looked upon as a reformer who did much to improve the methods of museum arrangement and management. In addition to numerous See also:original papers, he was the author of An Introduction to the See also:Osteology of the Mammalia (187o); See also:Fashion in Deformity (1881); The See also:Horse: a Study in Natural History (1890); Introduction to the Study of Mammals, Living and See also:Extinct (1891); Essays on Museums and other Subjects (1898). He also wrote many articles for the ninth edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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