FLOWER (Stanley Smyth, b.1871, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Director of Ghizeh Zoological Gardens, near Cairo 1898-1924)

Autograph Letter Signed to Prof. Jervis-Smith, 1848-1911, F.R.S., saying that "if Mr Armstrong cares to give us the Warriner, we will of course be pleased to receive it", but not to trouble specially, as "in these Gardens in fact they occur wild", heading in Arabic and English, 2 sides 8vo., Ghizeh, Egypt, 4th April

Flower was a Scientific Advisor to the Siamese Government in 1896. In 1898 Lord Cromer appointed him Director of the Ghizeh Zoological Gardens. Additionally from 1900 as 'Ranger of Central Africa' he founded and framed the laws of the Sudan Government Game Preservation Department. Thanks to him, egrets, which had been reduced to two small colonies in 1912, by 1924 were again becoming a common sight in the cotton fields.

Item Date:  1902

Stock No:  19750      £45

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