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in the gall of the wheat. These worms must have remained 
alive through the long and severe winter of the Arctic regions, 
and still have been able on the return of summer to attack the 
young grasses. 
It is, then, obvious, that the greatest care should be taken to 
prevent the galls being mixed with seed corn. 
Indeed, the galls should be separated from wheat, no matter for 
what purpose it is to be used. They are, to say the least, utterly 
valueless as food. They may, on the other hand, be the cause 
of disease in animals which swallow them with their food. In 
every case the galls should be separated from the good grain, 
and completely destroyed by burning. 
The illustrations of this paper are from original drawings by 
Francis Bauer, now preserved in the Department of Botany, 
British Museum — Natural History. 
XVI. — The late Edicard Bowly, of Siddington. By Professor 
Wrightsox, President of the College of Agriculture, Down- 
ton, near Salisbury. 
All breeders of Shorthorns, all old Cirencester students, all 
sportsmen who have hunted through Braydon Forest and the 
Vale of White Horse country, and all frequenters of our great 
Agricultural Shows, will have heard with regret of Mr. Edward 
Bowly's death. Widely as he was known both in the United 
Kingdom and in America, he was especially beloved in 
and around his home, and in his own neighbourhood and 
county. His genial and unaffected manners, straightforward, if 
somewhat old-fashioned opinions, and his genuine respect for 
his " brother farmers," won their esteem and love, so that no 
man was more respected and liked than he on the Cirencester 
market. It is pleasing to think of him in his domestic and 
social character, but as a leading member of this Society and 
an eminent agriculturist, we must glance at his public rather 
than at his private influence. Looking then at Mr. Bowly as a 
public man, we see in him an improver of cattle and sheep, a 
promoter of agricultural improvements, and of technical educa- 
tion as bearing upon agriculture. Mr. Bowly was not an 
orator, but he was a pithy and animated speaker, throwing into 
his remarks much force of voice and manner. His leading 
topics were connected with farming, but when occasion offered, 
he was ever willing to slide on to the as congenial subject of 
fox-hunting, and this was often the prelude to a spirited harangue 
on the " good old Constitution " of old England. Let the many 
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