OF JOHN EDDOWES BOWMAN, ESQ. 83 
this description, among whom Mr. Bowman must 
be allowed to occupy a distinguished place. His 
example affords the greatest encouragement to 
all who may fancy themselves excluded by their 
education or their circumstances, from the privi- 
leged walks of science. In science there is no 
aristocracy ; every one whose bosom glows with 
the pure love of truth, whose knowledge is sound 
and accurate as far as it extends, who can cor- 
rectly observe a fact and draw an inference—is 
already a member of its glorious fraternity which 
embraces every grade and condition of human 
society. 
In all the relations of private life the character 
of Mr. Bowman was most amiable and exemplary; 
his affections pure and warm; his habits healthful 
and rational; his manners courteous and affable ; 
his tastes elegant yet simple. Of his attachment 
to domestic pleasures and pursuits I have already 
spoken ; it formed a prominent feature in his char- 
acter.* When his known acquirements as a man 
* His scientific tastes have been inherited by his children. 
Since this Memoir was read, the Royal Medal has been award- 
ed by the Royal Society of London to his third son, Mr. 
Wm. Bowman, F’.R.S. for his paper, On the Structure and Use 
of the Malpighian Bodies of the Kidney; published in the 
Philosophical Transactions for 1842. 
