OBITUARY NOTICES OF FELLOWS DECEASED. 



SIE WILLIAM BOWMAN was born at Nantwich in. 1816. His mind 

 was in early life directed towards natural science; for his father, 

 Mr. John Eddowes Bowman, a banker, was a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society, an ardent botanist and geologist, an intimate associate with 

 many of the best naturalists of his time, and, during the last years 

 of his life, one of the most active promoters of literary and scientific 

 societies in Manchester. The ' Catalogue of Scientific Papers' gives 

 references to fifteen papers on various subjects which were published 

 by him between 1828 and 1842 in the Transactions of the Linnean 

 and Geological Societies or in scientific journals. They show that 

 he was a careful and minute observer in a wide range of study, a 

 clear and vigorous descriptive writer, and a, good artist ; the illustra- 

 tions of some of his papers, engraved from his own drawings, are 

 admirable. 



Sir William in his boyhood studied botany and geology with his 

 father and drawing with both his parents ; for his mother also was an 

 accurate and skilful artist ad naturam, both with the pencil and in 

 needlework. A disposition for earnest study and for high mental 

 and moral culture prevailed in his home, and all his brothers were in 

 their several ranges of work successful and well esteemed. One was 

 Professor of Classics in the Manchester New College ; another was an 

 architect of good repute in the same town and author, with his 

 partner, of a work on " The Churches of the Middle Ages ; " the 

 third was Professor of Practical Chemistry in King's College, and 

 author of two small widely-read books on Practical Chemistry and 

 on Medical Chemistry. They all died before him. 



After completing his general education at Hazelwood School, near 

 Birmingham, Bowman was apprenticed to Mr. Joseph Hodgson, a 

 Fellow of the Royal Society, Surgeon to the Birmingham General 

 Hospital, and one of the most distinguished surgeons of the time. 

 He could not have had better opportunities for the study of surgery 

 than were thus provided for him. The hospital, in which he was a 

 house-pupil, supplied large numbers of cases which he could observe 

 and record, and Mr. Hodgson was not only an able teacher and an 

 earnest worker in surgery, but, as is proved by the illustrations of 

 his book on ' Diseases of the Arteries,' which were engraved from his 



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