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ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
Head Quarters, Sebastopol, Jan. 21 . 
Veterinary Surgeon Stockley will, from this date, have the 
care and supervision of all officers’ chargers, and baggage- 
animals, as well as any public animals attached to head- 
quarters. He will receive an addition of Is. 6d. per diem, to 
the allowance already granted to him. 
Jan. 24 . 
Mr. Gloag, principal Veterinary Surgeon, Land Transport 
Corps, will proceed to Constantinople, to superintend the 
purchase of veterinary medicines and stores ; and, subse- 
quently, to the Dardanelles, to examine the state of the 
animals at the depot there. 
From the ‘ London Gazette * of Friday, Feb . 8, 1856. 
William Thomas O’Donnell, gent., M.R.C.V.S., serving 
with the temporary rank of Veterinary Surgeon to the Land 
Transport Corps, to be Veterinary Surgeon. 
OBITUARY. 
We copy the subjoined from the Medical Times and Ga- 
zette of Feb. 9th, 1856. 
“ The scientific circles of Edinburgh have sustained a severe 
loss by the death of Professor Barlow, of the Royal Veteri- 
nary College, a man as much respected for his scientific at- 
tainments, as he was beloved for the gentleness and amiability 
of his character. He died on the morning of the 29th in- 
stant, at No. 1, Pilrig Street. About a month ago, he was 
seized with what seemed a rheumatic attack, which gradually 
assumed the symptoms of a severe spinal affection. After 
some weeks of intense suffering his system yielded to the 
pressure of excruciating pain, and the virulence of the 
nervous attack, which the ablest medical skill failed in sub- 
duing. 
“John Barlow was born on the 20th September, 1815, at the 
Oak Farm, Chawley, Cheshire, which had been in the pos- 
session of the family for about 200 years. The subject of 
this notice early evinced a strong love for animals, and the 
cows of his father’s dairy became more particularly the ob- 
jects of his special study. This youthful predilection doubt- 
less influenced his choice of a profession, and tended to induce 
him to devote much of his time to the obtaining of a know- 
ledge of the diseases which affect the domesticated animals. 
In 1842, Mr. Barlow joined the Edinburgh Veterinary College 
