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one of the founders of the Manchester Photographic Society, 
and filled the office of president from its commencement up 
to the time of its division, and manifested his interest in its 
publications by throwing open his valuable collection of 
works of art for the use of some of its members. He was 
also one of the early members of the Microscopic Section of 
the Literary and Philosophical Society, to which he pre- 
sented a set of valuable objectives for its instruments. 
He was likewise himself an assiduous worker with the 
microscope, his investigations being directed chiefly to 
the structure of insects and annelides. Within ten days of 
his death his interest in the various scientific societies of the 
city was evinced in a long conversation which he held on 
the possible union of these, and on the desirableness of 
forming some plan by which the naturalists among the 
working men, so numerous in Manchester, yet so little 
known to each other, might be brought together. 
Mr. Eddowes Bowman, who was born on 12th November, 
1810, at Nantwich, after a thorough school education under 
Mr. T. Wright Hill of Birmingham, entered the profession 
of a Mechanical Engineer, and for five years held the office 
of submanager of the Yarteg Iron Works at Pontypool. 
Here he distinguished himself by the philanthropic interest 
which he took in raising the social condition of the work- 
men. The Yarteg works being given up in 1840, Mr. 
Bowman resolved to resume his pursuit of classical litera- 
ture, and entered the University of Glasgow, where he 
graduated as Master of Arts. He afterwards attended at 
Berlin for several years the lectures of the most distin- 
guished German Professors, and his studies were marked by 
great earnestness and thoroughness. Thus qualified, he was 
appointed, in 1846, to the Chair of Greek and Latin Classics 
and of Grecian and Roman History, in Manchester New 
College, on the resignation of Mr. F. W. Newman, to whom 
he was acknowledged to be a not unworthy successor, in a 
