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did it quietly, wisely, and without self-assertion; just as he did many 

 generous things in charity and the promotion of religion. 



His personal character, hardly less than his scientific eminence, 

 made all who knew him wish to show him how widely and deeply he 

 was esteemed. He received many honours from universities and 

 scientific societies, the titles of which are added to his name in the 

 List of Fellows ; he was created a baronet in 1884 ; his friends at 

 home and abroad presented him with his portrait by Mr. Ouless, 

 B.A., and arranged for the reprinting of all his works and all their 

 illustrations in the complete edition recently edited by Professor 

 Burdon Sanderson and Mr. Hulke, after careful revision by himself ; 

 and in 1883 the Ophthalmological Society founded in his honour the 

 " Bowman Lecture." 



He had resigned the Surgeoncy of the Ophthalmic Hospital in 

 1876 ; but he retained the pre-eminence in private practice till, after 

 hold ing it for more than thirty years, he began to retire and to spend 

 an increasing portion of his time at Joldwynds, near Dorking, where he 

 had a country-house in beautiful scenery, and gardens which he loved 

 to cultivate. Here he enjoyed the prosperity which he had attained 

 after great difficulties in his early professional life, and with it he 

 had complete domestic happiness. He had married in 1842 a daughter 

 of Mr. Thomas Paget, a highly esteemed surgeon at Leicester ; they 

 had seven children, and, as he had imitated his parents in his scien- 

 tific and artistic studies, so, and with the like success, were they 

 imitated in his home. As one who could speak with knowledge 

 states, " they were imitated in the high moral and intellectual train- 

 ing of the children," and "in the high standard of rectitude which 

 they maintained." But, besides all this, he enjoyed his partial re- 

 tirement because it gave him time to gratify his love of Nature and 

 of scientific observation. He cultivated rare plants, and those about 

 which questions might, perhaps, be determined by experiment; he 

 set apart a piece of land in which he might find the fittest place for 

 each species, and subject it to various tests ; and, with willing coin- 

 cidence, he especially studied the Lathrsese, which had been the subject 

 of one of his father's earliest investigations. He formed what Mr. 

 Thiselton Dyer, with whom he was in frequent correspondence, and 

 from whom these facts were learned, considered one of the best col- 

 lections of open-air plants in the country, and he often blended his 

 ific work with his love of art in so grouping shrubs and flowers 

 iow by the arrangement of forms and colours the most perfect 

 Thus he attained old age without apparent diminution of 

 il power or of the love of acquiring knowledge ; and, to the last, 

 ies of science and of art gave him great happiness. It was 

 Qore than a week after his final retirement from practice, and 

 leaving the house in Clifford Street in which he had long lived, 



