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OBITUARY. 
Veterinary Surgeon, vice Veterinary Surgeon, First Class, William 
Varley, transferred to Royal Engineers. 
Royal Engineers. — Veterinary Surgeon, First Class, William Varley, 
from the 13th Hussars, to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice Veterinary 
Surgeon, First Class, Thomas Walton Mayer, placed on the Retired 
List, in accordance with Clause 415 of the Royal Warrant of the 
27th of December, 1870. 
MISCELLANEA. 
ANTI-VACCINATORS. 
A rough remark in our last issue has, says the Spectator, brought 
down on our heads a storm of objurgations. We said that vaccina- 
tion was decried by two or three scoundrels and a good many fools, 
whereupon we are asked whether we class Mr. Newman among the 
scoundrels or the late Dr. Bedford among the fools, what we mean 
by publishing such falsehoods, why we are deluding the people, and 
all manner of amenities. The letters we could stand up against, 
but the deluge of tracts is too much, and so we give in, the more 
readily because the expression was inartistic. We beg, therefore, 
to declare that people who denounce vaccination in order to sell 
nostrums are not scoundrels, but only persons who risk human 
lives for gain ; and that people who denounce vaccination from 
philanthropic motives are not fools, but only persons devoid of the 
faculty of weighing evidence. 
OBITUARY. 
We have to record the following deaths, viz. — Mr. William 
Johnson, Inspecting V.S., Bengal Army ; diploma dated June 4th, 
1845. On February 28th, Mr. William Powell, of Newton Long- 
ville, Bucks; diploma dated April 29th, 1858. Mr. Wm. Smith, 
of Tewkesbury; diploma dated March 31st, 1807. Mr. T. W. 
Bretherton, of New York; diploma dated May 9th, 1837. Mr. J. 
F. Wilson, late Bootle; diploma dated July 17th, 1817. Mr. T. 
Waters, of Northampton ; diploma dated January 13th, 1810. Mr. 
John Bright, late Brixton ; diploma dated 1814. Mr. Wm. Bonsor, 
of America; diploma dated May 8th, 1823. Mr. R. W. Curtis, of 
Brooklyn, New York ; diploma dated July 9th, 1833 ; Mr. R. H. 
Haslam, of Baltimore, U.S. ; diploma dated July 21st, 1829. And 
Mr. John Scott, of Philadelphia; diploma dated February 21st, 
1828. Suddenly of disease of the heart, Mr. James Kirkman, of 
Blackburn and Accrington ; diploma dated April 30th, 1858. 
