OF JOHN EDDOWES BOWMAN, ESQ. ray 
Novum Organum, has referred all the cultivators 
of science and philosophy—and which a former 
member of this society—the late lamented Dr. 
Henry—has eloquently delineated, in some of 
their highest developments, in his contrast of the 
philosophical characters of Wollaston and Davy—* 
that which dwells on distinctions and detects ex- 
ceptions, and that which perceives similitudes and 
embraces generalisations—we can hardly be mis- 
taken in classing Mr. Bowman’s mind under the 
former. It was more prone to discriminate than 
to combine, and more largely endowed with 
the logical, than with the imaginative, faculty. 
He rose, indeed, very far above the character of 
a mere collector of facts. His mind was truly 
philosophical. It distinctly recognised the gene- 
ral laws and pervading analogies, which the re- 
searches of previous inquirers had well established 
in the several kingdoms of nature ; but its pecu- 
liar function consisted in detecting and examining 
new phenomena under the guidance of those laws 
and analogies, in extending the range of their 
application, and pointing out, in particular cases, 
labitur in excessum, prensando aut gradus rerum aut umbras. 
—Lib. I. Aphor. lv. 
_* In the Preface to the last edition of his Chemistry.—pp. 
Vill—X. 
