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from which he received one of the Royal Medals in the following 

 year. Other results were incorporated in Bowman and Todd's 

 " Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man," and in Todd's 

 " Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology." For an estimate of the 

 value of the work, and its fundamental importance, we may refer to 

 an article by Dr. Burdon Sanderson in Nature of April 14. In 1846 

 Bowman was elected assistant surgeon to the Royal London 

 Ophthalmic Hospital, and within the next decade he attained to 

 the position of surgeon in King's College Hospital. By this time 

 he had decided to devote himself exclusively to the diseases of the 

 eye, and henceforth his early brilliant researches were unfortunately 

 discontinued. Bowman's work in ophthalmic surgery was charac- 

 terised by the same thoroughness that had been conspicuous 

 throughout his histological investigations ; and, in recognition of his 

 professional eminence he was created a baronet in 1884. Apart, 

 however, from his purely scientific and surgical work. Sir William 

 Bowman will long be remembered as a generous supporter of many 

 of the principal medical and scientific institutions of London, and 

 the Royal Institution especially mourns the loss of one of its most 

 valued officers. 



