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productions *. His loss in Manchester must indeed be seriously 
felt, and from my own knowledge I can state that his absence is not. 
only to be regretted in these rooms, but also that his presence will 
be much missed in the approaching assembly of the British Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, for he had been a frequent 
attendant at former meetings, and had never failed both to communi- 
cate papers and to serve in any office in which he could be useful. 
In estimating his character, I should say that Mr. Bowman took 
a high place in that class of authors who silently but steadily ad- 
vance science by short and clear monographs on subjects with which 
they are familiar. As the class is not large, so can we ill afford to 
spare the assistance of one who, like Mr. Bowman, really distin- 
guished himself in this modest but highly useful walk. 
By the death of Mr. Tuomas Epineron of Glasgow, we lose one 
of the old and valued members of the Society, and whose name is 
honourably associated with that of the early school of Scottish mine- 
ralogists. Every geologist who has had occasion to visit the West of 
Scotland, found in his house a hearty welcome, and in his beautiful 
museum much instruction respecting the vast variety of simple mine- 
rals in which that region abounds. At the meeting of the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Glasgow, he 
filled the office of one of the local secretaries, on which occasion he 
was untiring in his exertions, and unbounded in his hospitality, whilst 
he was of signal use in cementing the bonds of kind feeling between 
his countrymen and the men of science who came among them as 
visitors. Having been informed that Mr. Edington’s minerals must 
be disposed of; I beg to express my hope that a collection so choice, ° 
and so highly esteemed by mineralogists, may find some enlightened 
purchaser worthy of its contents. 
_Among our other deceased Fellows, I have still to mention three 
whose names are connected with our pursuits, Mr. Snow of High- 
gate, Dr. YeLLoty, and Mr. M¢Engry. The first of these gentlemen 
was not only a frequent attendant at our meetings, but an assiduous 
collector of fossils and a donor to our museum, particularly after the 
excavation of the Highgate tunnel, during which operation he be- 
came possessed of a fine series of shells of the London clay. 
Dr. Yelloly was a firm supporter of this Society at a period when 
it was struggling for existence under the auspices of our first Presi- 
dent, Mr. Greenough, and real and efficient friends were put to the 
test. Dr. Yelloly was among the foremost of these as an active 
member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, which body afforded 
the rising geologists their first place of meeting in Lincoln’s Inn 
Fields, where our founders set up their standard of independence, 
and claimed to have an existence as uncontrolled by the Royal So- 
ciety, as the medical men who aided them sought at the hands of the 
College of Physicians. The advantages which science has reaped 
from this independence of action and division of labour is now, 
indeed, admitted even by those who were opponents and have lived 
* Philosophical Magazine, November 1841, 
