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OBITUARY. 
ON BREEDING OE ANIMALS. 
We insert this month the first part of a summary by 
Mr. Assistant-Professor Varnell, of the answers received to 
the questions on Breeding propounded by him in our last 
volume, pages 373 — 375. 
We cannot refrain from expressing our conviction that it 
is a document replete with interest and of great value ; and 
whilst we are free to confess our disappointment at receiving 
so few communications in reply to the questions ; since we feel 
assured that there are many more of our readers who could, 
if they would, have enriched the record ; nevertheless, much 
has been obtained, and we have to express our obligations to 
Messrs. Barker, F. Chamberlain, E. A. Gibbon, T. J. Mer- 
rick, W. T. Stanley, and H. R. Stevens, for the readiness 
with which they answered the inquiries ; but we hope that 
this list will yet be considerably added to. 
ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary 
examination for the Diploma, were admitted Members of the 
College, at a meeting of the Court of Examiners, held on 
December IQth, 1855. 
Mr. F. Mather, London. 
,, C. Lowe, Sandbach. 
,, J. B. C. Hall, Kimbolton. 
„ H. Allnutt, Beaconsfield. 
,, W. Furnivall, Egham. 
,, D. J. Archer, Knightsbridge. 
,, W. Smith, Market Deeping. 
„ W. T. Hearn, Petworth. 
,, H. Pitt, Birmingham. 
,, C. Thimbleby, Spilsby. 
,, W. Bryer, Cheltenham. 
„ D. E. Ratter, Fundenhall. 
OBITUARY. 
Died, on the 21st November, 1855, of phthisis pulmonalis, 
Mr. Jonathan Wainwright, of Dublin. 
Also, lately, from an accident, Mr. W. Hammond, Witton, 
near Durham. 
