When did the British Museum of Natural History take it out ?
Lynn Barber , in her excellent " Heyday of natural history " , paints a too - severe portrait of Flower when she describes him as " an aristocrat and autocrat conspicuously lacking in the common touch ... when his assistants complained that they were so poorly paid that their wives were having to take in washing , Flower said yes , he too was feeling the pinch – he had to tell his wife to restrict the use of her carriage . "