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suit of those sciences of which he had ever been passionately fond. 

 Hitherto he had been able to follow them only as a recreation, having 

 never allowed their cultivation to encroach on the time set apart for 

 business ; yet he had already, from the ample stores around him, ac- 

 quired extensive collections in the departments of botany and geology, 

 which were his favourite studies. 



In 1837 he transferred his residence to Manchester, where he in- 

 tended to pass the remainder of his life. During his short abode in 

 that great emporium of manufactures and commerce he endeavoui-ed 

 by all the means in his power to advance and diffuse a love for sci- 

 ence, and especially for natural history ; and by his associates in the 

 different societies of that place his memory will be warmly cherished. 

 He had looked forward with much interest to the approaching meet- 

 ing of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 

 that town, but this hope was not realized. He died after a sudden 

 illness on the 4th December last. 



Mr. Bowman became a Fellow of this Society in 1828. He has 

 contributed two papers to the sixteenth volume of its ' Transactions' : 

 viz. " An Account of a new Plant of the Gastromycous order of 

 Fungi," which is well described and figured under the name oi Ener- 

 thema elegans ; and a memoir " On the parasitical connexion of 

 Lathrtsa SqvMmaria, and the peculiar structure of its subterranean 

 leaves." The last-named paper is a valuable contribution to our 

 knowledge of a very obscure branch of vegetable physiology, the 

 connection, namely, of Root-Parasites with the plants on which they 

 grow, and is beautifully iUustrated by two plates of details, from Mr. 

 Bowman's owti pencil. His other natural-history publications are, 

 with one exception, geological. They consist of, 1. a memoir " On 

 the Longevity of the Yew, as ascertained from actual sections of its 

 trunk, and on the origin of its frequent occurrence in Churchyards," 

 in Loudon's ' Magazine of Natural History for 1836 ' ; 2. "Notes on a 

 small patch of Silurian Rocks to the W. of Abergele, on the north- 

 ern coast of Denbighshire," communicated by Mr. Murchison to the 

 Geological Society in 1838; 3. "On a white fossil Powder found 

 under Peat-Bog in Lincolnshire, composed of the siliceous fragments 

 of microscopic parasitical Confervce ;" 4. "On the origin of Coal, and 

 the geological conditions under which it was produced;" 5. "Ob- 

 servations on the characters of the Fossil Trees discovered on the line 

 of the Bolton Railway;" 6. "On the Upper Silurian Rocks in the 

 Vale of Llangollen, North Wales ; " (the four latter communicated to 

 the Manchester Geological Society, and published in the first volume 

 of their Transactions ;) 7. three papers in the 'Philosophical Maga- 



