OBITUARY. 
540 
quiry into the Physiology of the Bloodvessels and Absorbents,” 
to take and keep and treat a sick dog for 10s. a week, and 
then to be told, he is overcharging its master. Why, this is 
setting veterinary science and its professors at a low price 
indeed! How would Mr. Frere like to have his six-and-eight- 
pences cut down ? “ Live and let live” is a maxim which it 
well becomes men in business to steer their course by, and of 
all men it becomes professional the worst to forget. Law, as 
well as other commodities, may be had cheap enough by running 
to “ pettifogging lawyers” for it, as well as dog-medicine, when 
sought of dog-dealers and dog-stealers ; but, when we come to 
deal with those who practise professions in the acquirement of 
an adequate knowledge of which time and money and educa- 
tion become requisites, let us at least deal liberally and gentle- 
manly with them. What did Dr. Locock do under the same 
circumstances I Why, instead of dreaming to bate Mr. Vines’ 
extremely modest demand, he, with the generosity of a prince, 
made him a present of four times the amount ! ! 
Voil4 quelle est la difference de l’un 4 l’autre. 
OBITUARY. 
Died on the 6th ult., at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, after a 
very short illness, Mr. William Waller, M.R.C.VS., aged 
21 years. 
Mr. Waller obtained his diploma at the last meeting of the 
Board of Examiners of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons for London. During his pupillage, he comported himself 
very much to the satisfaction of his instructors, and obtained 
one of the silver medals awarded to students for the best Essay 
on a given subject, with other expressions of approval and 
honour. He was about to return to India with his friend, at 
whose house he was staying at Boulogne, when symptoms of 
pulmonary consumption shewed themselves; of which insidious 
and fatal disease there had been no previous indication what- 
ever ; and yet within one short week he had “ gone to that 
bourne whence no traveller returns.” 
Had he been spared, his intentions were to have practised 
the veterinary profession, not only in his father’s large establish- 
ment, but also generally in the Presidency of Madras. Alas ! 
our expectations and our hopes, like summer flowers, how soon 
they are blighted. 
“ We, ignorant of ourselves, 
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers 
Deny us for our good.” 
