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completion of a work so much required by the professional 
student. 
“ John Barlow was a member of the Society of Friends. His 
career has ever been marked by the principles which distin- 
guish that body of professing Christians. Modest, gentle, 
and unassuming in his manners, he obtained the respect of 
all who came in contact with him. Moral worth, and a deli- 
cate susceptibility towards the feelings of others, secured to 
him the warm attachment of a circle of intimate friends. 
“ In the death of John Barlow, veterinary science has lost 
one of its most enlightened teachers, and one of its most 
zealous students/’ 
We may well regret the demise of Mr. Barlow, and we do 
so sincerely, for we can ill afford to lose the industrious and 
the scientific from among us ; and such it appears, from the 
above account, Mr. Barlow was. There is, nevertheless, a 
melancholy gratification in transferring such a testimony to 
our pages. 
Personally, we were not acquainted with him, nor has he, 
since w r e have become the editors of this Journal, contributed 
to it, but we received from him a conditional promise, which 
was being realized, and we had hoped that the time was not far 
distant when it would have been fulfilled. But his work on 
earth was done ; and of him it may be said, “ his sun has 
gone down at noon.” 
“ Alas ! we are but eddies of dust, 
Uplifted by the blast, and whirled 
Along the highway of the world, 
A moment only, then to fall 
Back to a common level all, 
At the subsiding gust !” 
“ Yet say not in mournful numbers — 
c Life is but an empty dream.’ 
* * * 
“ Life is real ! Life is earnest ! 
And the grave is not its goal ; 
* Dust thou art, to dust returnest,’ 
Was not spoken of the soul!” 
We have also to record the death of Mr. M. Archer, of 
Bungay, Suffolk. He died on the 21st January, aged 34. 
He obtained his diploma in 1839. 
ERRATUM IN NO. 338. 
Page 71 ,for Carb. Ammon, read Sol. Carb. Ammon. 
