OF JOHN EDDOWES BOWMAN, ESQ. 55 
speaks of the delight which he felt in the acciden- 
tal visit of two gentlemen, who were making a 
geological tour in North Wales, and of the fresh 
impulse imparted to his own studies from this 
transient intercourse with congenial minds. He 
possessed, however, too much ardour and _ perse- 
verance to abandon an object, once deliberately 
undertaken, for the want of external stimulus. 
Not finding the Trap rocks in his neighbourhood 
described in Phillips and Conybeare’s work on 
geology, he collected a series of specimens, and 
transmitted them to Mr. Phillips with a request 
that he would give him their names. 
In 1824, he became the managing partner of a 
bank at Wrexham ; an arrangement which occa- 
sioned his removal to that place, and eventually, 
to the Court, a pleasant country residence in its 
immediate vicinity. In laying out and embellish- 
ing the garden attached to his new abode, and in 
rambles through the beautiful woodland scenery 
surrounding it, he again found ample opportunities 
of gratifying his predominant tastes. ‘The roman- 
tic woods of Erddig, contiguous to his home, he 
alludes to with evident satisfaction in his diary, as 
rich in botanical and entomological treasures. He 
was often strolling through them in the morning, 
