Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bowman, William
BOWMAN, William, F.R.S., consulting-surgeon to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, some time surgeon to King's College Hospital and Professor of Physiology and General and Morbid Anatomy at King's College, London, is a son of the late John Eddowes Bowman, F.L.S., F.G.S., and was born at Nantwich, July 20, 1816. Having received his medical education partly at King's College, London, he commenced his profession as a surgeon in the West-end of London, and has long been largely engaged in practice, chiefly in the ophthalmic branch. The Royal Medal in Physiology was awarded to him by the Royal Society in 1842. He has been a Vice-President of that society, and three times on its council. He is a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Science of Turin and of Stockholm, of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Sweden and of Belgium, of the Société Philomathique, of the Société de Chirurgie, and of the Société de Biologie at Paris, of the Royal Medical Society, and the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, of the Philosophical Society of Cambridge, and of the Medical Societies of Geneva, Dresden, Athens, Kieff, Pesth, and Massachusetts. He received the honorary degree of M.D. Dublin, in 1867, and that of LL.D. Cambridge, in 1880. He is President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, Vice-Chairman of the Clerical, Medical, and General Life Assurance Society, a member of the council of King's College, London, of the Council of St. John's House Training Institution for Nurses, and of the Council of the Nightingale Fund. He is also (1882) Hon. Secretary of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. He is the author of some important surgical works on the eye, "Lectures on the Parts concerned in the Operations of the Eye," "Observations on Artificial Pupil," and of "The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man" (the latter in conjunction with the late Dr. Todd), as well as of papers in the Philosophical Transactions, and "The Cyclopædia of Anatomy."