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OBITUARY. 
We have to record the loss of a highly respected member of 
the profession, Mr. Robert Barlow, of Cotgrave, Notts, who died 
Dec. 11th, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. Few men stood 
higher in the estimation of his friends and neighbours than Mr. 
Barlow. His loss is severely felt by all to whom he was known, 
either as a veterinary surgeon, friend, or acquaintance. Mr. Barlow 
obtained his diploma January 22nd, 1827. 
We also deeply regret to have to record the death of Mr. Jno. 
Lawson, M.R.C.Y.S., Manchester, which melancholy event took 
place on Dec. 19th, at his residence, Melrose House, Plymouth 
Grove, in that city. Mr. Lawson, who was only in the fifty-fourth 
year of his age, had served the office of President of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, and at the time of his decease was 
a member of the Council. He had also held office as an examiner 
in the Scotch section of the Court from 1861, and previously to 
that time he was a member of the Board of Examiners of the High- 
land and Agricultural Society. His early loss is deeply lamented by 
a large circle of friends, both in and out of the profession, by all of 
whom he was very much and deservedly respected. His diploma 
bears date April 25th, 1837. 
We append the following additional remarks received from a 
valued correspondent relative to this sad event. 
“ The announcement of the sudden death of Mr. Lawson brings us 
to the painful realisation that at a comparatively early age, in the 
vigour of manhood, and with his hand yet at the plough, death 
has deprived the Veterinary profession of one of its most zealous 
and devoted members. The cause of death was a sudden attack 
of apoplexy on the forenoon of the 18th, which, without any 
premonitory symptom, struck him down while engaged in his usual 
routine of business. From the moment of the attack, until his 
death on the morning of the 19th, he remained perfectly unconscious. 
“ The effects of this sad calamity cannot be expressed in words ; 
only his grief-stricken family and those who had the happy privilege 
of reckoning him among their intimate friends — as also that wide circle 
in which he daily moved, and to which he had endeared himself by 
the exhibition of those qualities the possession of which ever secure 
affection, esteem, and respect, can appreciate the heavy and irreparable 
loss all have sustained. Sharing, it may truly be said, in every 
movement which had the advancement and elevation of the profes- 
sion for its object ; cheerfully giving his means and time — upon the 
latter of which, for very many years, the demands made by business 
were incessant — and holding at various periods important offices in 
connection with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, our deceased 
