OBITUARY. 899 
understand he would not be eligible for the final test, and therefore 
bis interest in the matter would for a time be at an end.* 
It would be a much greater hardship for the examiner than for 
student. 
I beg to apologise for having intruded on the columns of your 
valuable magazine, but hope you will kindly lend them for the 
ventilation of a subject in which I and many others are interested. 
I am, &c. 
To the Editors of the ‘ Veterinarian * 
* [We did not gather from the discussion which took place at the meet- 
ing, that the Council had determined not to admit the pupil to the final test 
who had failed in his practical examination.] 
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EIGHTY-ONE SHEEP SUEEOCATED. 
In the week ending Oct. 15th, an extraordinary incident 
occurred on the farm of Mr. David Love, at Theale, near 
Reading. A flock of 194 sheep were grazing in a field, when 
two dogs set upon the flock and worried them, causing nearly 
the whole to rush in a corner of the field, where they all 
huddled together one upon the other, and while in this con- 
dition eighty-one of them were smothered to death. The 
sheep were the property of Mr. Samuel Gould, farmer, Mor- 
timer, and were only temporarily placed in the field. The 
next day the sheep were taken to the kennels, and sold for 
Is. each, being entirely unfit for human food. Only one of 
the sheep appeared to have been bitten by the dogs, and the 
breast of that w’as fearfully mutilated. — Times. 
OBITUARY. 
We deeply regret to have to record the death, from apoplexy, of 
Dr. W. A. Miller, Professor of Chemistry, King’s College Hospital, 
which melancholy event took place on September 30th at Liverpool, 
whither he had gone to attend the meeting of the British Associa- 
tion. Dr. Miller was one of the Examiners in Chemistry to the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, to which appointment he 
succeeded in 1866, on the death of the late Professor Brand. From 
the several obituary notices which have been published respecting 
him, we learn that he was born at Ipswich, on December 17, 1817, 
and was educated at Merchant Taylor’s School and at a Quaker’s 
