OBITUARY NOTICES. 
Veterinary Lieutenant-Colonel James H. B. Hallen, C.I.E., 
P.R.C.S.E., F.R.C.V.S. By W. Owen Williams. 
(Read July 7, 1902.) 
To give in a very small space anything like an adequate memoir 
of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Hallen is almost impossible, his life 
of work was such a long and busy one, extending as it did for over 
seventy years. 
Colonel Hallen was the son of an army veterinary surgeon ; he 
qualified as a veterinary surgeon in Edinburgh under the late 
Professor Dick, and he also graduated in medicine. 
His life was spent chiefly in India, and he did what few English- 
men managed in those days to do, — he gained the complete con- 
fidence of the natives; and of him is said by one of high rank 
in our army, “ a most striking characteristic about him was the 
great influence he had over the natives of India, owing to his extra- 
ordinary charm of manner ; they always seemed to feel that they 
could thoroughly trust him, and that though he was working for 
the Government, yet he would not require anything from them 
that was contrary to their own interests. His unfailing patience, 
good temper, and courtesy, together with his transparent honesty 
of character, gave him an influence in dealing with natives of every 
rank, from the highest to the lowest, such as is given to very few 
Englishmen.” 
The appointment of Colonel Hallen in 1876 as Government 
Superintendent of Horse Breeding marked a new departure in the 
policy of the Government of India. 
Up to that time the efforts of Government had been confined to 
breeding of remounts required for British cavalry and artillery only 
in the Bengal Presidency, in some half dozen very costly estab- 
